Category: Art Of The Deal

Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

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ABC12, Feb.3rd;

President Trump says he agreed to “immediately pause” tariffs on Mexico for a month after a “very friendly” conversation with the country’s president Claudia Sheinbaum.

“I just spoke with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico. It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican Soldiers on the Border separating Mexico and the United States,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “These soldiers will be specifically designated to stop the flow of fentanyl, and illegal migrants into our Country,” he wrote.

CNN, Feb.3rd;

Ideas Matter

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Critics of Trump typically assert that his political moves are motivated solely by a desire to be a bully, but in reality there’s a fairly complex political ideology behind them. It’s not new and it’s been in the works for decades, as Julius Ruechel points out in this Substack essay. No matter what you think of Trump, it’s important to understand the ideas that motivate him and his supporters. And it’s clear that Trump is not a fan of limited government.

In [Bannon’s] view, the only question was whether the future would be populist nationalism or populist socialism.

The populist nationalist is essentially Trump’s “Make America Great Again” or Putin’s conservative nationalism — state-regulated capitalist nation-states unashamedly acting to defend their national interests and acting for the collective benefit of their own citizens, much as nations have always done, but with both military and corporate might harnessed to an even greater degree to defend national interests and optimize society. Individuals and businesses inside the “national fortress” are largely left in peace to pursue “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” within the confines of the nation’s sandbox as long as their activities don’t impinge on national interests, even as the largest corporations are incentivized and/or coerced to pursue objectives that the political leaders believe will serve the country as a whole…

 

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🚨 #BREAKING: Panama is exiting China’s Belt and Road agreement after Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit – Free Beacon

President Mulino said he plans to NOT renew it when it expires in a “year or two” – BUT, he wants to see if the agreement can be exited EARLY.

This agreement essentially increases China’s economic influence in member countries.

President Donald Trump has been pressuring Panama to curb Chinese influence around the Canal – and Rubio was sent this weekend to convey this message.

Coulda Had A Pipeline

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It’s not just about tariffs. If you examine what the America First advisers around Trump really think, you’ll understand their determination to undertake a sweeping overhaul of the global economic system — and why they’re starting with Canada. Brian’s guests this week, trade researcher Carlo Dade, from the Canada West Foundation, and Ian Lee, public policy professor at Carlton University, have done their homework…

The ad interruptions are irritating, but stick with it.

We’re From The Government, And We’re Here To Manage

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What the Tech Right Sees in Trump;

• While SpaceX put more than 300 rockets into orbit for less than $10 billion, California has built 1,600 feet of elevated rail for $11 billion, and now projects its high speed rail project will cost a total of $128 billion.

• Congress earmarked $7.5 billion in 2021 for a half-million electric-vehicle charging stations. By May 2024, only eight had been built. Not 8,000. Not 800. Eight.

• The federal government allocated $42.5 billion on rural broadband and has connected zero homes after three years.

• Unimaginably large parts of Los Angeles were just destroyed by a devastating fire while its fire hydrants didn’t work, and while fire department leadership seemed more focused on DEI than saving lives.

Something has to change. Our politicians can no longer remain fixated on steady, predictable preservation of the status quo. Instead, we need a leader who will fight for the country, is willing to risk change, and who realizes America’s exceptional potential.

via Instapundit.

QOTD

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Runner-up (thread): Fully support Premier Smith protecting our oil and gas from a unilateral Ottawa export ban on energy. Some say we need Team Canada. That may have had more appeal if there had been a Team Canada to help us get our resources to market in the past. But that support wasn’t there ⬇️

Crisis? What Crisis?

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If the Canadian government decides to go ahead with plans to shut off the supply of oil to the United States, the bigger crisis will be a financial one, not a national unity kerfuffle. Companies facing bankruptcy when forced to abrogate their contracts will have to be compensated by taxpayers and that bill will be big enough to send us begging to the IMF.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says that if the federal government imposes an export ban on Alberta oil going to the United States as a retaliatory measure against expected U.S. tariffs it would precipitate a “national unity crisis.”

In addition, the United States is probably aware that the petrochemical supply runs both ways in some regions.

In 2023, Canada imported 16.9 million metric tons of crude oil from the United States, which was the largest quantity Canada imported from any country.

Let The Horse Trading Begin

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Times- Jeremy Clarkson: Let Trump bid for Greenland — and Britain too

The Danes, who own Greenland now, might make petulant noises about losing it, but it’s costing them about £430 million a year in subsidies and all they get in return are 60 crabs and two bags of animal hair. So, on the quiet, they’d probably be quite glad to see the back of it. In the same way that a man might cry his eyes out if his high-maintenance wife waltzes off with someone else. But inside, every one of his internal organs is punching the air with delight.

Art Of The Troll

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Robert Graboyes sees that and more;

In several social media posts, President-elect Trump referred to “the Great State of Canada” (or “the 51st state”) and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “Governor Trudeau. It’s a nonsensical idea, and I suspect Trump knows it’s a nonsensical idea. The president-elect likely raised the idea for four reasons:

• To give the nettlesome prime minister a diplomatic swirly. If doing so contributed to Trudeau’s downfall, then Trump’s trolling constituted a Worthwhile Canadian Initiative.

• To distract the legacy media, for whom the absurdity of annexing Canada is an irresistible shiny, rotating object. If they’re focused on Canada, journalists lack sufficient bandwidth and attention span to focus, as well, on Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, or Tulsi Gabbard.

•To intimidate and disorient Canadian authorities prior to tariff negotiations. These functionaries haven’t sufficient bandwidth or attention span to deal with tariff minutiae while journalists badger them about Trump’s irredentist impulses.

•Because he can.

Related: Justin Trudeau abruptly leaves the Liberals’ caucus meeting after 30 minutes, saying he has “work to do as prime minister.” The meeting, which included all Liberal MPs, lasted for six hours.

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Legal Insurrection;

Greenland certainly has been making news recently.

President/President-elect Donald Trump’s tasked his pick for Ambassador to Denmark with persuading the Danes to sell us the resource-rich Arctic land.
Shortly afterward, a major power outage struck Greenland due to a downed transmission line.

The outage left the region dark during a period of with temperatures dropping below -27 degrees Fahrenheit (-33°C).

Now, Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede has called for independence from Denmark in his New Year’s speech, marking a significant shift in the rhetoric surrounding the Arctic island’s future.

“They don’t have permits…. You can’t get them from Ottawa, everybody knows that”

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National Post- Kevin O’Leary is on a mission to revive Canada and he’s starting in Alberta

Mr. Wonderful — as he likes to call himself — gets a lot of air-time, cast as the heartless a–hole on “Shark Tank.” But it’s Kevin O’Leary, the clear-eyed dealmaker who I need to meet, to explain why he’s backing a $70-billion AI data centre industrial park near Grande Prairie in northwest Alberta.

Trump’s Tariff vs. Trudeau’s Ego

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Yesterday, President-elect Donald Trump posted this:

As everyone is aware, thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before … On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders. This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country! Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem.

Prediction of Trudeau’s ego: “Not on my watch!” In fact, he’ll likely intentionally do nothing, stating that he won’t be bullied by any American.

For those with their heads stuck firmly in the sand, his failure to change the course of Canadian policies is why we have this.

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