There are going to be two major stories in 2026 that we will have full context to understand. Yes, the 2026 midterm politics are going to lead the headlines, but two other issues will have considerable impact.
The first, is the FISA (702) reauthorization, and there is a lot that will surface in the next several months likely to upend the best laid plans of the administrative UniParty [Tulsi Factor]. The second, is the USMCA reauthorization – the end of the trilateral trade agreement, and the structural shift into two separate free trade agreements.
As to the latter issue, while Mexico and Canada are currently in a state of economic flux, only Mexico is preparing to deal with the seismic shift that is about to unfold. Canada is going to be caught completely off guard.
While Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is trotting around Europe trying to establish his relevance amid the pro-Ukraine coalition, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is spending time focused on her domestic economy.
Mexico is preparing to drop significant tariffs on Chinese imports, a proactive move to position Mexico in advance of the upcoming bilateral discussion.
Sheinbaum knows that right now for every deportation ICE executes, her economy is hit as remittances recede. Simultaneously, for every mile of border wall that is completed, the financial dependency model increases. President Trump’s leverage in the upcoming bilateral trade negotiation against Mexico increases each day, week and month.
Claudia Sheinbaum is smartly focused on trying to get ahead of the issues, while Mark Carney ignores his vulnerability and is about to make Canada naked to the economic weaknesses created by Justin Trudeau.
CHINA POST – Mexico is preparing to raise tariffs on Chinese imports of automobiles, textiles and plastics, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, under a proposal expected to be part of the 2026 budget to be submitted to the nation’s Congress next month.
If confirmed, the increase would mark one of Mexico’s sharpest trade shifts in recent years. Officials in Washington have urged the move as part of US President Donald Trump’s push to build a “Fortress North America” and reduce dependence on Chinese supply chains.
Trump has been a long-time critic of what he calls trade “loopholes” in the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement allowing Chinese goods to enter the US. During his election campaign last year, he railed against Chinese carmakers building plants in Mexico to export cars to the US.
Mexico’s imports from China exceeded US$51 billion last year, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the country’s total purchases abroad.
The rapid growth has turned Mexico into China’s top overseas market for vehicles, but has also left local manufacturers complaining of unfair competition from subsidised goods. The planned tariffs could also be extended to other Asian nations, although China remains the main focus. (read more)
Taken in context, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is prepping to be in alignment with the goals and objectives of President Trump. Meanwhile Canada is completely ignoring the issue of Chinese trade, and the loopholes that anger President Trump within the USMCA exploitation.
We’ll keep watching, but this context will unfold. Slowly at first, then suddenly, all at once, come spring ’26.
Personally, I don’t want to screw Canada or Mexico. I want fairness in trade. I want a balanced budget & American jobs. I want the American dream of hard work and owning one’s own home again. Too much to ask? I think not.
For Canada, yes
Canada needs to get its own dream.
I hope it’s up to the challenge.
Canada acts as if it wants EU membership. (At least its leadership does.) The truckers and Alberta province deserve better.
Fairness is only come by acknowledging that both countries have screwed us for years.
It might look like we’re screwing them where, in actuality, we’re only leveling the playing field.
No it’s not too much to ask.
But you should be prepared to be disappointed by the Canadian government’s response…… 🙄
The Canadian citizens are really going to be disappointed when their economy collapses. The leadership up there is headed that way.
Indeed. Many Canadians are expecting bad times, worse than when Castro Jr. was at the helm. I did not think that could or would be possible. This Canada is not the place I grew up in. God help us, please, to endure what is going to hit us.
I do empathize with you & your like-thinking fellow Canadians, Donna.
The state of Maryland where I spent a fairly benign and happy childhood has changed radically over the past 50 years, and not for the good. It was a fairly moderate, middle of the road state, politically. But over the past 20 years, it has gone insanely hard left and is on a self-destructive path unless somebody wakes up and changes the direction of the governments in Annapolis, in Baltimore, and around the state.
I have no interest in moving at this late stage of my life, but if it gets much worse, I’m going to be forced to get out.
I feel your frustration, GB
I felt the same way about California, GB. After 4 generations of my family being born and raised there, the leftist’s policies drove me out about 10 years ago. And I don’t regret it. It just saddens me to see a great state become intolerable to live in.
Very understandable, Sharon. Both my and my wife’s direct ancestors since immigrating here from Europe are in Baltimore and a few other Maryland cemeteries. That our roots are here is a hard fact. We have children and cousins living here.
We are both approaching 80 and not as physically mobile as 20 years ago, so packing up a lifetime and moving to another state is about as appealing as mud.
But it’s not impossible if Maryland communists (thinly disguised as Democrats) move the state even further leftward into feudalism.
The problem is that I don’t see any other nearby state (we don’t want to move too far away from our kids and relatives) that looks that much more appealing in which to live as retired seniors than Maryland. We have looked at several and run the numbers and looked at the state statistics. It’s not a great choice.
We same age group and same concerns. We are west side Olympic Peninsula. We will probably continue to suffer with our state democrats rules…bill
West of Olympic National Park? Beautiful region but yes, somewhat like Maryland, most of Washington state’s government leadership would be in prison if this was 1960.
Yes, North Coast Olympic Peninsula. Walking on the beaches, exploring the rivers and forest help off set our state government. Hope you have some enjoyment too…bill
GB….. Sometimes getting out is the best thing you can do. We left corrupt CT over 20 years ago. The handwriting was on the wall. It was the best decision we ever made.
It’s not so much that I don’t want Canada or Mexico to get screwed but I’m fed up with the US getting screwed.
Not enough…we want lower taxes all across the board.
If Mexico is opening their market up to China even more, we’ll be getting more Chinese junk in the USA. No companies can compete at the wages of Mexicans or Chinese. That means less jobs for Americans or unlivable wages like many of us are facing already. We have to make our own products and buy Made in the USA or the gap between working poor and rich will never close. Who’s not guilty of buying cheaper products made in other countries? We have to stop importing so many products and make our own. Trumps mission!
That’s what the tariffs are for…keeping ALL the junk off our shores. Let the Chinese and the Mexicans consume their own products. Meanwhile US demand for quality made US products will encourage US manufacturing to come roaring back. We must STOP the flow of foreign made junk into our landfills.
Spot on Jimbo. Also end property tax so we actually own that home.
“Also end property tax so we actually own that home.”
100%
All a property tax is is a rental fee paid to the county or municipality.
All Canada and Mexico had to do was to stop the fentanyl from crossing their borders into the US.
That this one request is too hard for Canada, as it appears Mexican President, whose nation is run by the cartels, is taking open steps to do that, stop the flow of fentanyl, all that happens going forward – that’s on Canada.
I believe the tariffs are not just about fair trade and fixing trade imbalances. Trump is using them to fight against countries that are enemies to the US. The biggest enemy is China. China is ultimately responsible for and is profiting greatly from fentanyl trade. China has two goals in this, make money and weaken America. This is being acknowledged more and more. They are working with the cartels and other organized crime groups for profit and to weaken the US. The cartel operator that recently escaped jail in Mexico is a Chinese national. He is a middleman for CJNG and he escaped just before he was about to be extradited to the US. Experts rate his importance as up there with El Chapo. China has stolen American technology and are doing their best to infiltrate the US just as they do in many other countries.. They cheat in every way they can get away with.
I was just reading that Chinese organized crime, which is controlled by the CCP has infiltrated Maine’s marijuana grow up industry using both legal and illegal operations. This is also occurring in 20 other states. This is just one example of how they infiltrate and take control.
The biggest strength and greatest leverage the US has over other countries is trade. It is the largest consumer in the world and Trump, who I truly believe is a genius in these matters, is using this strength as leverage to bring these countries into line.
https://www.themainewire.com/2023/11/triad-weed-illegal-chinese-marijuana-grows-are-all-over-maine/
PM Carney sticks his head in the sand like the ostrich allegedly, does in order to avoid being seen as a lacklustre leader who prefers to punt on economic issues rather than facing them. He still does not understand that being a Prime Minister has attached responsibilities which are far different than being a CEO or head of a bank.
Canadians should not underestimate the insidious character of Marx Carnage.
He does not project naïve incompetence so much as cunning deception.
In July 1942 George Orwell, although talking about England at the time, nailed exactly what is happening in Canada right now when he wrote:
“….We in England underrate the danger of this kind of thing [writing off the totalitarian world as a nightmare that can’t come true], because our traditions and our past security have given us a sentimental belief that it all comes right in the end and the thing you most fear never really happens….”
Carney is just the front man, with no real agency of his own. POTUS said the Crown is considering the 6.1 billion offer. That was framed as being for protection under the Golden Dome, but it is fair to consider it might just be for the sale of the Crown holdings in Canada, which is pretty much . . . Canada.
Carney should know, after all he was advising PM JT.
Ostriches don’t stick their head in the sand! They lower their head to be less vulnerable!
Not to be overlooked is that Mexico also wants to head off a Trump administration taxing of remittances, which actually dwarf its Chinese trade imports, and so placating moves now to mollify the administration is in its best interests.
The administration is very much aware of the value of remittances to the Mexican economy, and their factor as a magnet drawing illegal immigrants into the U.S. That the president hasn’t moved to tax them already is a point of negotiation, not a lack of awareness or a sympathy for Mexico’s “plight.”
Mexico, like Canada and the rest of the world, will learn that the president really does mean it when he says that the days of the U.S. being taken advantage of by friend and foe are over. And that they did it knowingly, for so long is a debit against any goodwill consideration in current negotiations, even if the president does admire them acting in their own self-interest.
Now, when the president finally awakens to the long-term debacle created by allowing hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals to study in American universities, , America will again be first indeed.
J
PDJT already knows about the Chinese student debacle. Your information is not current. PDJT is going to use this issue when negotiating with Chyna.
‘Makes no sense to bring 600k students from China here when he’s doing everything he can to get so many out
72 hr rule went all the way out the window
BREAKING – The White House just confirmed that Trump’s statement about 600,000 Chinese students was misrepresented, clarifying that the figure refers to two years’ worth of visas for the 300,000 students already in the U.S., not 600,000 new students”
Which part of my information is not current? Do you believe that the administration does not currently plan to give out enough visas to admit hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals to American universities? (I never mentioned a specific number, nor a time frame, just that it would be in the hundreds of thousands.}
The pronouncements of China being our chief geopolitical adversary will carry more weight when we stop allowing thousands of Chinese spies in to steal American research and act as a potential fifth column. Unless a Chinese student intends to defect, then he or she is beholden to the Chinese government and its wishes, and none of those put America first. That should be as non-negotiable to the administration as depending on other countries for steel and aluminum.
J
He is honoring the agreement already made with Chyna to allow 300,000 Chinese students to come here to study for the next 2 years. Period.
Whether or not they get to return after 2 years has not been revealed.
In the meantime, PDJT is using this issue in the negotiations with Chyna along with tariffs, currency manipulation, using other countries as pass through nations for Chyna, etc.
If he barred them NOW then that issue would no longer be a bargaining chip.
My opinion is that these “students” will be gone if Chyna cannot play the long game of infesting our colleges for decades at a time with their spies. Two years gets them very little. Xi has got to know that these “students” will be monitored excessively and will have a difficult time embedding themselves.
Xi may just decide to reduce or eliminate his student program in the USA and cut his losses.
Agreement lets them in. Proven to be spies or steal intellectual property or step out any little bit, “Bye bye”.
Well, unless imprisonment for some of the spies to take them out of the spying business. Chynah not get their little geniuses back. Maybe even pass law for death penalty for foreign spies tried before military, not in clogged in court system.
Sure, let the little CCP princes and princesses in to study at our most prestigious universities. However, the visas must include 2 provisions: first, they will be restricted to Woke Studies programs, and second, if found near ANY US research or military installations, they will be shot on sight.
Let me try to be more direct here… There is no bargain that works to a U.S. advantage that ends with allowing hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals to enter into, or remain in, the U.S. on student visa or in any other manner, for any length of time. China knows this, and I would assume that the administration also knows this. So what’s to bargain? How fast we’ll phase out their presence here?
The president deems it in the national interest to end TPS (Temporary Protected Status) for thousands of foreigners who have been allowed to remain in the U.S., unassimilated, even after the conditions in their homelands that gave rise to their refugee status have abated. Good for him. But I would argue that those thousands of refugees are less problematic than thousands of Chinese nationals being allowed into this country for any reason. The Chinese government does not allow that kind of migration unless it’s for its advantage, and our disadvantage.
Restricting Chinese imports does not end with cars and de minimis gewgaws.
J.
Does that mean we have 300,000 spies to monitor them? Yes, emails and texts but those who play by the rules with instructions by there masters, know what and how to steal information and will be able take it home. Think one bad actor stationed as a US citizen could help pull it off without suspicion. They already have there own police stations here, I doubt they closed them all.
That timeframe doesn’t fit with getting a four year degree so what is happening now is that many Chinese and foreign students are going elsewhere for university. Colleges in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and also Europe are seeing increased student admissions from abroad.
And……….who led the organized narrative? MTG, screaming not America first. Hodge Twins, Wayne Dupree, and others blasted same format when posting MTG tweets. With perfect timing, sprinkled in positive blurps highlighting DeSantis.
There’s many points of leverage PDT hasn’t used against both Canada and Mexico. The one point I don’t understand is why there are still so many fentanyl ODs happening everywhere? We know the ingredients are from China and manufactured in both Mexico and Canada. There’s not a chance both countries don’t know where this bioweapon is being manufactured.
Journalist Sam Cooper provides some deep background on this topic on https://substack.com/@samthebureau
Canadians should be horrified.
Unreal. Thanks for the link. Easy to see why the cartel drug trade is not being dented. Unless the US goes after the real enemy, China, this bioweapon fentanyl will continue killing Americans at the same or greater rate
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/08/29/wealthy-island-communitys-sewage-has-cocaine-problem/
It’s interesting that fentanyl is not showing up in the sewage coming from Nantucket. They’re buying the good stuff.
The remittances are no different than a trade deficit. Possibly they are worse. Then we must consider foreign workers of American businesses.
The issue of USMCA, will be interesting to watch. The moves Mexico are making seem to be common sense moves. As for Canada, their economy is already in trouble, the Canadian leadership represents a blind man steering a freighter through a tight channel, their dollar is losing value, and they truly are backed into a corner with no painless way out.
Good luck to the Snow Mexican’s as their future holds economic pain.
Our dollar is nearing to what it was in the 90’s, 50% lower than the US$. Hubby had to purchase an item it was $40 US cost him almost 60 CDN two weeks ago.
“The first is the FISA (702) reauthorization, and there is a lot that will surface in the next several months likely to upend the best laid plans of the administrative UniParty [Tulsi Factor].”
Sorry to change the topic but do you really think there’s a snowballs chance in hell the scumbags in CONgress won’t just ram this load of bullpocky through this time? Don’t get me wrong, I want to see it, but man alive it seems like that affront to the country always passes through with zero issues.
I share your sentiment, but I have a tiny glimmer of hope that MAGA Nation might demand it of every GOP rep as a condition of not being primaried in the 2026 elections. Probably a false hope.
It all depends on when the Congress takes it up. I’m guessing they won’t take it up until primary season is either over or it’s too late for a new entrant. That’s how they roll.
All President Trump would have to do is tell congress he’ll veto it and it will be dead in the water. It’s an election year after all..
Leave the snow Mexicans cabal to be dealt with by their salary payers.
As Sundance has previously noted, Trump would greatly prefer bilaterals vs USMCA. Different issues with border, remittances, manufacturing, and NATO all make a trilateral more difficult. I believe that Mexico sees that they will do better with a bi vs USMCA, but Carney is clueless.
It will be fun to watch this evolve.
There are those who learn to walk and those that wait to be carried.
Gateway Pundit has an interesting article today that relates to this subject. I don’t consider GP to be a stellar news source but sometimes they get it bang on.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/trump-tariffs-kill-fdi-china-mexico-canada-draw/
Keep an eye on the Western Canadian provinces. They’re becoming increasingly independent. They may try to negotiate separately from Ottowa.
Mark Carney went to Harvard and Oxford and has a PhD 1995, then Goldman Sachs and Bank of Canada in various positions.. . Governor of the Bank of Canada 2008 to 2013, Governor of the Bank of England 2013 to 2020.
The US has never had a banker as President. There is a reason we have never had a banker as President. They do not know how to run run things, they are not people of action. They count money and loan money. You see Jerome Powell managing a 2.1 Billion remodel that will cost more than 3.1 Billion. Powell will not even fire a Director that has committed mortgage fraud.
Let me get back to Carney. After leaving the Bank of England…..Carney was chair of Bloomberg LP. and vice-chair and head of impact investing ESG at Brookfield Asset Management. In December 2019, Carney was named to Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance. He was appointed chair of the Liberal Party Economic Growth Task Force and Carney became co-chair of the World Bank’s Investment lab. Carney could not manage a small business. He is a DEI hire.
Carney is proof the Peter Principle is functioning.
The USA has almost never “not had a banker president.” Something like 1870 to Trump. Certainly up to Kennedy. and a few prior to 1870 too.
What was it? something like 24 straight presidents were either a Morgan man or a Rockefeller man, although they combined for McKinley, after the great party flip, based on McKinley holding to the gold standard. And then a shot rang out and voila, Teddy Roosevelt, Morgan man.
Harvard; there’s the problem right there.
All Ivy League schools are problems! It’s the Profs! Soros is another issue!
BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Authority to Impose Sweeping Tariffs
Meanwhile, the judicial insurrection continues.
This a really good example of a Friday evening news drop
The other item worth watching in early 2026 is the evolution of the Federal Reserve board of governors and head. I don’t know what Lisa Cook is doing, but she is going to lose big time. And that’s just one piece of the puzzle.
Am quietly hoping that Pulte’s team has been auditing all the other Federal Reserve board members. The fraud that lady expects us to pretend isn’t fraud and thinking the problem will go away may be the leak in the ship that eventually sinks the Federal Reserve system.
Fist fight on Mexican senate today. Cartel senators vs Mexican senators.
“drop tariffs…”
What does that mean?
Used here to mean “impose,” I believe, not “lower,” its more common meaning. (An unfortunate choice of terms IMHO.)
At best, AI is only as good as the training set presented to it and the pre-programmed biases introduced by its largely left wing programmers.
The age old programming principle of “Garbage in, Garbage out” still applies with AI. Most AI uses garbage for training sets.
And then there is the severe AI deficiency known euphemistically as “hallucinations”.
AI is vastly overrated in many respects.
I saw an item tonight on a lawsuit brought against ChatGPT (or whatever it is, I don’t keep track of the gobbledygook names) for encouraging a depressed teenager to suicide.
That’s some pretty noxious garbage-out right there.
Carney can’t see the coming storm? Wasn’t he touted as an economist of renown?
Maybe he was simply waiting for today’s Appeals Court ruling? Tariffs seem likely to be revoked by the courts, the USMCA is helping him right now and Trump has yet to move to withdraw. I’m not sure how publicly proactive he can be, without worsening his position.
So in your mind it would be ok for Carney to know the outcome of this case in advance of the court’s ruling? Thank you cancerous colon for your remarkable output – cancerous shyte. As tariffs continue uninterrupted and Carney folds, I look forward to your continuing commentary. Freaking clowns, this person and yosemite trans.
You seem to have an anger management issue. And a propensity to project words and feelings onto the people you are interacting with.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Canadian Prime Minister Carney’s seeming lack of attention to the matter always brings up that threat Zelensky made to President Trump’s face in that first White House visit, what are the neocons planning? It’s just not natural for a nation’s leader to not aggressively take actions to shore up their own peoples’ needs, as if the problem (PDJT) won’t really exist for much longer.
Bottom Line: The Narco-Cartels who control Sheinbaum are smarter and better at economics than the WEF/Globalists who control Carney.
At least the Narcos are experienced at how to run a profitable business-model.
I can think of no better example of CranioRectal Inversion than any Republican agreeing to the reauthorization of the FISA court, which OBAMA and the Deep State weaponized exclusively against Republicans. And especially if its Senior judge is Jeb Boasberg.
Our dear friend Boasberg is no longer a member of the FISC court. His term was up in May, 2021.
Good points made, one for the editors though:
“right now for every deportation ICE executes, her economy is hit as remittances recede.”
It looks to be a bit of a broad statement, as it implies every single ICE deportation is a Mexican national paying remittances or a person paying bribes back into Mexico. Even if they were all Mexican nationals, they wouldnt ALL be paying remittances.
Could be true, but likely isnt.
Interestingly, Western Union (NYSE:WU) stock is down ~20% since PDJT took office.
The Center for Global Development (link below) states: “Unsurprisingly, we find that Mexico stands to lose the most in absolute terms, over $2.6 billion per year. This is followed by a few large middle-income countries (India, China, Vietnam) and several Latin American countries (Guatemala, Dominican Republic, El Salvador).”
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/which-countries-will-be-hit-hardest-us-remittance-tax
This article brought up something that I missed in the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ in its final form, though I’m sure it was discussed here at the time. The House version had 3.5% tax on remittances for foreigners in the US, but after the Senate got through with it the tax was lowered to only 1% and also includes remittances sent from US citizens.
That’s quite a difference.
MAGA 👊👊🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸
The taco belle is smarter than I thought.
Hmmm
Are we taxing remittances to Mexico?
No
That is…
No.
Not yet.
Remittances are old school. Most people use P2P or direct bank deposits. Digital cash is the favored method now.
There is a charge on remittances currently. Sadly, POTUS lowered them for India this Summer.
Canada is still pretending, like a child with eyes closed, ” can’t see me can’t see me”
Help me to make sense of the fact that it’s illegal for President Trump to impose tariffs on other countries but it’s fine for these other countries to impose tariffs on the US and block access to American goods in their countries.
Why is Mexico or any country allowed to receive remittances from foreign nationals, legal and illegal, living and working in America without paying a fee for sending money out of the country rather than spending it here and supporting the US economy?
According to this Yosemite guy- the all important tariff court said so.
Am pretty sure they do not specialize in constitutional issues, however.
The tariff court – LOL.
Carney is a lot more involved with the WEF than Sheinbaum is. Might help explain some of his actions to harm Canadians.
I predict canada will again take a knee to the USA but only after the bluster has run its course.🇱🇷
Elbows up, again. 😆
Canada is now in a position where Mark Carney has to beg Trump for mercy.
2nd quarter Canadian economy fell with a projected yearly -1.6% GDP growth. A recession. US has 3.3% positive growth.
In Canada one pundit noted the Canadian US ambassador needs to be fired. She’s the one who hired a consulting firm connected to Nancy Pelosi to teach Canadian Liberals how to talk to right wing Americans and Canadians.
Mass immigration continues with Carney overshooting his own high caps in just the first 6 months of the year and he will break an immigration record when he promised to reduce immigration.
Carney came with a new carbon tax called the clean fuel tax to rob the Canadian economy. His commitments to spend big money on ReArm Europe are just a burden on Canadians.
Sadly the best result is for Trump to sink Canada into deep recession and force the Liberals to end mass immigration at a time when Canadian don’t have jobs.
It makes me very sad but I agree. Trump’s pressure on Canada is my best hope to force us to dump socialism and the climate change hoax and all the other progressive left craziness and to turn back to a natural resource based economy and common sense. Canada has all the same problems the US had in 2015 when it looked like Hillary might win. It was a tipping point and it appeared the US was about to go off a cliff. Trump turned the tables but it hasn’t been easy. The fight has been much harder than anyone expected it to be and it continues on even now. Canada is facing the same issues.
I’m not a Canadian, but that is exactly how I see it. Affliction forces us to return to the basics. Canada has for too long been captured by progressive fantasies that simply do not work and which are destructive.
I would say, though, that Trump is turning the tide, present tense, rather than has turned the tide. The enemy is down, but is not sleeping.
Steinbaum has cartels to protect.
“Sheinbaum knows that right now for every deportation ICE executes, her economy is hit as remittances recede. Simultaneously, for every mile of border wall that is completed, the financial dependency model increases. ”
This is greatly longed for music to my ears, made even sweeter by the tarrific harmony.
God bless that very smart baby boy of Fred and Mary Ann Trump. His Daddy used to say Donald had the Midas touch, and it certainly does appear to be the case.
Cartel money at work influencers of corrupted governments
Canada put 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs in response to US demands. Chinese responded with tariffs on canola which will wipe out Saskatchewan (1 of 10 Canadian provinces analogous to states). Canada is not doing nothing, just doing stupid
Good for her, looking forward to how to best represent her nation of Mexico.
This will be interesting to see how things unfold.
Nerves raw and tempers hot in the Treehouse of late. Mostly drama kings btw.
Leaving feelings out, I noticed a potential connection between some dots which may or may not be truly be connected but have some of the same hallmarks.
Wikipedia was useful at first (and still is for many topics.. mostly non political topics like acid-base reactions, geometry, and basic knowledge – like tree species). But as we all know it is clearly biased around many more topics.
Google – same some legit info but definitely biased in terms of ‘what you get to see’ – what response comes up first, emphasis on leftist positions on the spectrum, easily tweaked by owners. Algorithm’s, etc.
AI – growingly suspect in terms of unbiased truth(s). Grok et al definitely demonstrated versatility in terms of the responses. Most inquiries include first some real information then a closing statement throwing some doubt or even shade on the ‘answer’. Typically a statement making sure to reflect the leftist pov.
The connection I drew is that all of these are easy ways to inject mis and disinformation into the conversation and it is predominantly the leftist perspective.
High tech propaganda generators is the distilled name for what I am seeing. Use with caution, use multiple data points, recognize their intent behind the bias.
Deep fake vids and images add a powerful visual component to the narrative.
Overall, all the above tilt clearly to the left – and that’s not just a coincidence.
The easy answer is to not believe anything you hear or read unless it can be verified from a trusted source
At this hour, still trying to wrap my head around a Mexican President with the name of “Sheinbahm.”
Great article. Yes. She is working hard to align Mexico to MAGA so that any issues with trade down the road are negated. Smart person. Not sure how that helps her with her cartel problem though. Surprised my friend SD was silent about that.
Don’t worry folks, som unelected judge will intervene and tell Trump, even though he’s President, he’s not permitted to do do Presidential things.
Canada lives under mass delusion. I live here.
Canadians have a deep ceded belief in their superiority to Americans. A country largely run by childless cat ladies who think only of the present and never of the future. They think money grows on trees.
Canadians are so “smart” they’ve allowed the government to own everything from liquor stores to insurance companies. Unfortunately the utopia is getting expensive!
We might be the most brainwashed people in the planet.
Canada is basically a CCP client state and that’s the way Carney and his party want to keep it. His only aims are to further enrich himself and his pals at Brookfield Asset Management through corrupt “green” deals subsidised by an already plundered electorate and to advance CCP geopolitical interests.
I think you are right. Carney announced an extra 9 billion to be spent on the military this year. Sounds good until you take a closer look and realize that 4.2 billion of that will go to ‘decarbonizing the military’! I hope the Trump administration catches this outrage and puts an end to it. Green projects should not be counted as military spending or count towards Canada’s NATO obligations.
No talks about Canada and fair trade can really exist until the Irving family holdings just to name one entity are explored further.
A 30 second Grok query, literally.
The Irving family, based in New Brunswick, Canada, is one of the country’s wealthiest and most influential families, with extensive holdings in both Canada and the United States. Their business empire, primarily through J.D. Irving Limited and Irving Oil, spans multiple industries, including forestry, energy, shipbuilding, transportation, media, and real estate. Below is an overview of their American holdings, based on available information:
Overview of the Irving Family’s American Holdings
The Irving family’s U.S. operations are significant, particularly in the northeastern United States, where their businesses have a strong presence due to geographic proximity to New Brunswick and their focus on vertical integration.
1. Forestry and Land Ownership
2. Energy Sector
3. Consumer Products
4. Transportation and Logistics
5. Construction and Industrial Services
6. Media
Key Characteristics of Their U.S. Holdings
Thanks for that most informative post!
I have said this before on these posts, Kanada is a vassal state of the CCP thanks to the boy king Trudeau.
Scheinbaum is a narcopresident and should be persona non grata. Finish the wall, send the people home. After that, close the gates and let em think about it for 10 years. Bye.
I agree. She is narco. She never could have gotten to the position she is in if she wasn’t. She may genuinely care about Mexico but she can only do what the cartels allow her to do. She walks a fine line because she has no other choice. On the other hand she might be 100 percent cartel and just pretending to care. I guess time will tell.
Mexico is a real country. Canada isn’t. They define themselves only by being not the US. This long precedes Trump.
Since both countries are financially dependent on America and/or China, could the difference be that Mexico’s non-NATO status allows them to act according to reality where Canada has to cow-tow to what the Europeans want?
Just curious – the comments header says that there are (as of me posting this) 193 comments, but I come up with ~120 comments that are apparently posted. Something happen?