26 Replies to “4 Clowns Giving the Elbozos Their Daily NPC Update”

  2. They’re all dumber than Katy Perry’s girlfriend.

    Is that how everyone out east dresses? Or just old worn out political hacks?

  3. Trump is a REAL THREAT cozying up with Putin, Xi Jing Ping, Kim Jung Un.

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    Cozying up is not the same as COMMUNICATING.

    Case in point: Trump expressed surprise that Obama had not tried to speak directly to Kim Jong Un to prevent potential conflict, recalled asking him, “Have you spoken to him?” and claiming Obama said no.

    Obama called his relationship with Kim Jong Un a policy of “Strategic Patience.” In other words, no communication and an opportunity for misunderstanding.

    If you think Trump is “pals” with Putin, you aren’t paying attention. Venezeula is a good example. Russia had just signed an Energy and Securty pact with Venezeula a couple months before the US popped in and changed that Energy pact (not to Russia’s advantage).

    Concerning China, one of the primary roadblocks on US and Canadian negotiations is that Canada has turned into a Chinese “assembly plant” wherebye they slap “made in Canada” stickers on the products to allow China to circumvent tariffs. Carney isn’t willing to change that process…so there is an impass. And, how do you think China feels about losing the Iranian refined oil connection….well they feel pissed off enough to share satellite information with them.

    1. Concerning China, one of the primary roadblocks on US and Canadian negotiations is that Canada has turned into a Chinese “assembly plant” wherebye they slap “made in Canada” stickers on the products to allow China to circumvent tariffs.

      That is often alleged, but evidence is rarely presented. I suspect the idea is primarily spread by US manufacturers who don’t want competition from Canada.

        1. I’m already familiar with that case. In fact, it’s the only I have heard of, and I’ve searched. Mexico appears to be a far bigger problem for mislabeling.

          1. “I’m already familiar with that case. In fact, it’s the only I have heard of, and I’ve searched. ”

            So that’s your only reason for thinking the practice has stopped? You don’t even consider that the Americans have information that you aren’t aware of?

            “Mexico appears to be a far bigger problem for mislabeling.”

            Says who? Why don’t the Americans think so?

            Your shtick is just getting tiresome now.

  4. Carney doesn’t seem worried about a US invasion. He stated the possibility is remote in the extreme. Having the military analyze the scenario is just being prudent. I would hope any PM would do the same.

  5. “Not worried about a US invasion, remote in the extreme, just being prudent”, your sarcasm is killing me! Maybe a better option rather than asking the military brains in Canada about an invasion that would be complete in a matter of hours Carney should ask his Transport Minister to come up with a viable plan should America cut-off Canadian road and rail traffic through America. Now there is a real problem that we may have to face this winter.

    1. Carney’s exact words were “extreme tail risk”. That’s geek talk for “remote in the extreme”.

      But the question of just how the US would invade Canada — if it came down to it — and how Canada might respond, is far more interesting than you make out. The logistics of invading a massive country is not trivial even for the US military.

      1. And Iraq’s Republican Guard are the most fearsome fighting force on the planet! The Mother of all battles against America. Apparently Canadians have their own Baghdad Bob’s (in dresses) …

      2. KM, you sometimes make cogent agrguments, this isn’t one of those times. Canada is essentially a 100 mile wide stripe along the US border. The 10th Mountain Division in upstate NY could be in Ottawa unopposed by lunch time, if they stop for Timmies. Our current compliment of fighter pilots is 30 odd, flying ancient Australian cast offs. If one is foolish enough to take off, it’s pilot dies courtesy of an F22 or 35, never knowing how he died or what killed him. Our LMAO Navy, all 12 or so ships are in Halifax or Esquimault (sp?) and have likely no fuel in their bunkers, nor ammo in their magazine. A few JDAM’s and no navy. Our army?? Do I actually need to go there?
        The US has more armed force in Alaska than Canada has in toto. Canada is surrounded on all sides with the recent addition of Greenland. The only thing left is citizen resistance, except Ottawa has disarmed most Canadians, the ones who do still have arms probably favour an end to our corrupt Laurentian elites. The resistors would be wussified, urbanized 60 year old elbows up boomers, who mostly can’t change a tire on the roadside, that will terrify the marines, no doubt.

        Please do expand on the problems they would have invading Canada.

        That is the military way. More practically, cut off line 5 & 9, we surrender in a week. No option.

        1. I am fully aware of the disparities between the Canadian and US military. I have no delusions on that score.

          Which is why Canada’s main target would not be a military but an economic one. The US is $40 trillion in debt. It’s getting on increasingly thin fiscal ice. If Canada can make it very expensive for the US to invade then the global bond market might lose trust that the US is good for its debt. The price of US treasury bonds woud plummet and the US would be in fiscal crisis. That would cause global economic chaos. And the American electorate would then vote on how they felt about that.

          In short, Canada’s best defense is making itself indigestible in a way that targets America’s greatest vulnerability.

          As I said, the question is way more interesting than people presume.

          1. “If Canada can make it very expensive for the US to invade then the global bond market might lose trust that the US is good for its debt.”

            Once again, for the dullards and day-drinkers among us:

            The United States WILL NOT BE INVADING CANADA.

            That’s pure Liberal/NDP fantasy.

            It’s the 2026 version of the Maginot Line; impenetrable, sure…until the enemy just *goes around it*.

            If Carney somehow did manage to force military action against us, the Americans would simply blockade us. We would be forced to surrender without a shot being fired. End of story.

      3. To: Tenth Mountain Division Fort Drum Watertown NY
        Directions
        Head north on State Route 37
        Merge onto Route 12 at Morristown
        Continue on 12/37 to Ogdensburg NY
        Turn left on Trooper Shawn W. Snow St
        Continue past toll collection booth (tolls will be waived)
        Cross the international Seaway Skyway Bridge
        Continue north on provincial highway 16
        Merge onto provincial highway 416
        Continue north eventually merging with highway 417 (the TransCanada highway)
        Now here’s where it gets tricky
        Exit one or all of the following exits…Kent St.- Bank St, or Elgin St.
        My suggestion would be to use Kent and Elgin as Bank is narrow and busy with shoppers.
        Continue north until you hit Wellington St, make famous by the Trucker Convoy
        At this point Parliament Hill is a chip shot away.
        Remember 50km equals 30 mph
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDGkQiwh_qg

  6. Your sarcasm has hit the high point tonight. Make Canada indigestible…..indigestible, Shirley you jest!!!! As for America being broke, evidently you haven’t been paying attention and I really don’t need to waste my time explaining why we are in the predicament that we are in because Buttercup, every country in the West is broke, and America is the only one that is trying under Trump to get back to national stability.

    1. America is the only one that is trying under Trump to get back to national stability.

      Holy crap, you need to get out more. The US federal debt is 114% of GDP, and it’s deficit is 5.6% of GDP, which is why this happened…

      https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/about-us/usrating.html

      US federal debt has not been this high since WW II. Worse, there doesn’t seem to be a coherent plan from either the president or congress to rectify this. It’s not something Trump tends to talk about, and there is little prospect of the deficit decreasing in the next few years. In fact, Trump’s defense secretary just asked for a 50% increase in the military budget. And Trump promised a fat cheque to every American adult if they returned a Republican-majority congress in November, the cost of which would be $1.3 trillion.

      There are other G20 countries in the same boat, but that’s irrelevent to my point. Bond markets are getting nervous.

      1. Make it expensive? That comes down to resisting, a thing which we are incapable of as previously noted. As to the fiscal situation, the US is way in debt, so is the rest of the west, and unlike the rest of the west is growing. Growth fixes a lot.
        Who is not growing?
        Canada
        The UK
        Germany
        France
        Japan
        Many others, but they are piffles. There is another issue. To whom is the debt owed? 82% of US debt is owed internally, i.e. to Americans. Interest is in country transfers. 80% of Canada’s debt is owed to foreigners, that money is principally owed in US dollars, and leaves the country. It is essentially a strip mining operation.

        1. It doesn’t matter who holds US debt. It matters who currently buys US debt. And foreigners buy not 20% but 33% of US treasury bonds, which is more than enough to make the US vulnerable to them. But remember, even US buyers of treasury bonds don’t want poorly rated bonds. In fact. some are legally obligated not to hold them.
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          People on this site seem oblivious to the difficulties the US is having with its latest bond auctions. It’s not an emergency yet, but there are distinct warning signs.

          So far as comparing the US’s fiscal situation with other countries’s, that is irrelevant to my point.

          1. “So far as comparing the US’s fiscal situation with other countries’s, that is irrelevant to my point.”

            That point being “Sure, the USA is doing better than all those other countries…but still not as good as they say they are doing!”

          2. No, the point is that the US’s current fiscal problems are a major vulnerability that can be exploited in the highly unlikely case that it invades Canada. That some other major economies have similar problems doesn’t change that.

            This is not complicated, FFBC.

          3. “No, the point is that the US’s current fiscal problems are a major vulnerability that can be exploited in the highly unlikely case that it invades Canada.”

            Which WILL NEVER HAPPEN…so why do you keep carrying on about it?

            Quit drinking during the day.

          4. I’m proving a point; namely that the analysis of the US invading Canada is far more interesting than people think.

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