Canadians Celebrate As Liquor Stores Clear Out Shelves of American Booze in Response to Tariffs
World’s largest purchaser of wine is Liquor Control Board of Ontario. Today—shelves of Kentucky whiskey, American beer and California wine are empty in Canada
Liquor stores do great business in Canada- good news for Canadian, French, Spanish, Australian, and Chilean products
#DontMessWithCanada
March 5 (Reuters) – Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman’s (BFb.N), CEO Lawson Whiting said on Wednesday Canadian provinces taking American liquor off store shelves was “worse than a tariff” and a “disproportionate response” to levies imposed by the Trump administration.
All federal funding will STOP for any College, School or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!
This morning, Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought and Office of Personnel Management acting director Charles Ezell sent a memo to the heads of departments and agencies. The memo began: “The federal government is costly, inefficient, and deeply in debt. At the same time, it is not producing results for the American public. Instead, tax dollars are being siphoned off to fund unproductive and unnecessary programs that benefit radical interest groups while hurting hardworking American citizens. The American people registered their verdict on the bloated, corrupt federal bureaucracy on November 5, 2024 by voting for President Trump and his promises to sweepingly reform the federal government.”
Vought was a key author of Project 2025, the blueprint for a second Trump administration, and in July 2024, investigative reporters caught him on video saying that he and his group, the Center for Renewing America, were hard at work writing the executive orders and memos that Trump would use to put their vision into place. But his claim that voters backed his plan is false. An NBC News poll in September 2024 showed that only 4% of voters liked what was in Project 2025. It was so unpopular that Trump called parts of it “ridiculous and abysmal” and denied all knowledge of it.
Musk sees government workers as the enemy — as costs to be cut.
We saw government workers as assets to be developed, our partners in getting better services to the public more efficiently.
Musk also calls people who benefit from government programs the “parasite class.” Presumably that’s why he’s eager to cut back Medicaid. But Medicaid’s beneficiaries aren’t parasites. Half of them are children.
Oh, but if we’re talking about people who depend on government, Musk is the biggest “parasite” of all.
Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits, often at critical moments, helping seed the growth that has made him the richest person in the world.
“a vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper, so many people mention — I go in, so many people mention groceries — that beautiful but simple word groceries — ‘sir, my groceries’ — you don’t think of it that way, but that’s what they mention more than anything, my groceries.”
now let’s see what Donny says when the cameras are off.
Time: “If the prices of groceries don’t come down, will your presidency be a failure?”
Trump: “I don’t think so. Look, they got them up. I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.”
I’m sorry, what? you’d like to bring prices down — but maybe you can’t because it’s too hard?
Much of the action has taken place under the chandelier in the tearoom at Mar-a-Lago, where Mr. Trump surveys his potential Cabinet nominees on giant video screens.
He flicks through shortlists that his transition team, led by the billionaire Howard Lutnick, has drafted over the past months. If Mr. Trump shows an interest in a candidate, the presentation is designed to allow him to immediately watch videos of the potential nominee’s TV appearances — essential for any would-be Trump cabinet official.
“Under the Chandelier at Mar-a-Lago, Trump Makes Picks at Breakneck Speed,” The New York Times, November 16, 2024
just as we suspected. Donny’s being shown photos, and making spur-of-the-moment decisions based on his head-trauma notion of central casting. no vetting, no background checks. just Donny being shown a fucking slide show.
that’s how Donny ended up with this dude as his nominee for Secretary of Defense.
And the Consumer Sentiment poll responses depend on political party and the incumbent President. Political Independents are excluded from the results.
“Republicans suddenly feel good about the economy,” Emily Peck, Axios, Nov 13, 2024
It’s been that way for the last three presidential elections:
“Republicans and Democrats see different recoveries,” Sam Ro, Axios, Jun 28, 2021
So what is this Consumer Sentiment Index that seems to predict election winners? The Index is a product of Morning Consult, an online survey company that contacts “over 30,000 people around the world every day” but somehow “reaches tens of millions of adults globally.”
Morning Consult measures [consumer] sentiment by asking people questions about both current economic conditions (good or bad?) and their expectations for the future (better or worse?).
Consumer sentiment used to reflect current economic conditions, but for the past several years it’s grown increasingly political.
Put plainly, when your person is in the White House, or about to be, you feel good and hopeful about the economy. When you’re on the outs, not so much.
Trump Wins
Americans Want Lower Prices
Fewer Americans Want to Vote
10 million fewer votes for the winner, 8 million fewer for the loser.
Hitler – after he became the chancellor of Germany in 1933 – required the military swear an oath to him personally. The Holocaust Encyclopedia notes this “oath represented the beginning of a process of politicization, or Nazification, of the German military.”
As a reminder, Project 2025 contemplates a federal workforce loyal to Trump.
RUBEN BOLLING, TOM THE DANCING BUG, OCT 25, 2024Donald Trump depicted as Adolf Hitler during the Women’s March in Barcelona. DAVID RAMOS/GETTY IMAGES
Do You Want Fries with That?
Trump at a McDonald’s in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania. (Win McNamee/Getty)
Trump did a photo op at a McDonalds in the swing state of Pennsylvania, where he took prepared fries out of the fryolator. . . it was all staged: the restaurant was closed, the five “customers” were loyalists who had practiced their roles, and when Trump handed food through the drive-through window, he did not take money or make change.
I want to apologize to America. I helped create a monster.
For nearly 25 years, I led marketing at NBC and NBCUniversal. I led the team that marketed “The Apprentice,” the reality show that made Donald Trump a household name outside of New York City, where he was better known for overextending his empire and appearing in celebrity gossip columns.
To sell the show, we created the narrative that Trump was a super-successful businessman who lived like royalty. That was the conceit of the show. At the very least, it was a substantial exaggeration; at worst, it created a false narrative by making him seem more successful than he was.
In fact, Trump declared business bankruptcy four times before the show went into production, and at least twice more during his 14 seasons hosting. The imposing board room where he famously fired contestants was a set, because his real boardroom was too old and shabby for TV.
In fact, it is illegal. Voter registration forms say so:
Not only that, you do have to be registered to vote. If you are not registered by election day at the polls, you won’t be given a ballot. If Maye has ever voted in the United States I don’t think she was paying attention.
FEMA Funds and Projection
“Trump has a habit of assuming other politicians act in the same way as he would,” [Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post] wrote. So he looked into why Trump would have accused Biden “of raiding the FEMA disaster fund to handle undocumented migrants. It turns out that’s because he did this.”
In the middle of hurricane season in 2019, Kessler explains, Trump took $155 million from the FEMA disaster fund and redirected it to pay for detention space and temporary hearing locations for immigrants seeking asylum. “No, Biden didn’t take FEMA relief money to use on migrants,” the article title reads, “but Trump did.”
“Like their unwavering support for Donald Trump, nothing seems to faze MAGA voters about Robinson. As Raw Story summarized, several MAGA supporters of Robinson interviewed by CNN are standing by their man. Here is a smattering of what Trump-rally goers said when asked about them:”
70-year-old Bob Judson explained, “I didn’t put much credence in it. We’ve all done things in our past that we’re sorry for. Some of the things are crazy,” before adding, “I mean if we just went on that, we wouldn’t be here for Trump, would we?”
Trump … has recently tossed off promises to abolish taxes on tips, overtime pay and Social Security; make in-vitro fertilization free to patients; cap credit card interest rates; cut car insurance rates and restore the state and local tax deduction.
— Jeff Tiedrich from Everyone is Entitled to My Own Opinion, September 22, 2024
Official Trump Coins!
Making Women Great Again
“Donald Trump complains that Kamala Harris is too joyful, that she laughs too much. Trump thrives on a dark vision of America in chaos, casting himself in the role of faux superhero coming to save us all. He benefits from fearmongering. Trump made the deliberate choice to talk about “American carnage” in his inaugural address in 2020. As he loses votes among women, Trump resorts to telling us what to think and how to feel. It has nothing to do with our well-being and everything to do with helping him win the election. Sorry Donald. We are not going back.”
The New Yorker’s Philip Gourevitch noted that “Trump has been begging officials worldwide not to do the right thing for years to help rig the election for him—no deal in Gaza, no defense of Ukraine, no Kremlin hostages release, no border deal, no continuing resolution, no interest rate cuts, etc. — just sabotage & subterfuge.”
Fictional mug shot labeling Trump with “Project 2025”
Trump and the Media
The relationship between Donald Trump and corporate media.Members of Media and Democracy Project joined Rise and Resist’s protest outside the New York Times offices in Manhattan on September 18th, 2024
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