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Trump administration 2024-2028

dapaterson said:
Or Canada shooting down a US airliner and claiming there was cocaine on board?
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PrairieFella said:
Take it one step further, most drugs and illegal guns in Canada come through the States. Would the Americans be cool if we started killing their citizens for the same rationale?
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There is no Canadian precedent even close to the type of kinetic action that the US has taken in the latest escalation of the "war on drugs", not even during the Turbot War.
 
PrairieFella said:
Take it one step further, most drugs in Canada come through the States. Would the Americans be cool if we started killing their citizens for the same rationale?
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Ontario and BC are producing fentanyl and meth domestically at a surprising and rapidly increasing rate.

Maybe we could get the US to bomb some of those sites while they're at it.
 
FJAG said:
A small gaggle of paranoid, politicians and their enraptured followers have decided that to uplift themselves, they need to paint everyone else who isn't them - including many of their own countrymen - as an enemy.

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Nothing new about hate.

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Can Hate Give Your Life Meaning?

Psychologist Abdo Elnakouri explains how a certain kind of hatred can sometimes give your life a sense of purpose.
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HavokFour said:
Apparently the morale of US Farmers hasn't improved, further beatings incoming. Maybe Argentina is the real 51st State?

apnews.com

Trump suggests US will buy Argentine beef to bring down prices for American consumers

President Donald Trump says the United States could purchase Argentinian beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers.
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700lb steers are selling for an average of 3800.00 at the yard. The North American cow herd is at its lowest since the 1950’s.
Purebred animals are even pricier. A recent sale in Saskatchewan had heifer calves selling for an average of $12,000.00 (helped along by five heifers selling for an average of $40,000.00.

Maybe all of those soy farmers should have kept the cows around vice living the winter high life of a Arizona trailer park?

 
FSTO said:
700lb steers are selling for an average of 3800.00 at the yard. The North American cow herd is at its lowest since the 1950’s.
Purebred animals are even pricier. A recent sale in Saskatchewan had heifer calves selling for an average of $12,000.00 (helped along by five heifers selling for an average of $40,000.00.

Maybe all of those soy farmers should have kept the cows around vice living the winter high life of a Arizona trailer park?

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Jesus, I remember when you’d be lucky to get $500 for that same steer…
 
RangerRay said:
Jesus, I remember when you’d be lucky to get $500 for that same steer…
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Bred cows are at monster price right now and many an old cattlemen are cashing out. This bubble is going to burst soon because there is no way a young cattleman can grow their herd at these prices. Also feeders cannot make a buck and the processors have so cornered the slaughter market that they are paying the feeders peanuts.
Meanwhile the cost of beef at the store keep going up. Something gotta give.
 
FSTO said:
Bred cows are at monster price right now and many an old cattlemen are cashing out. This bubble is going to burst soon because there is no way a young cattleman can grow their herd at these prices. Also feeders cannot make a buck and the processors have so cornered the slaughter market that they are paying the feeders peanuts.
Meanwhile the cost of beef at the store keep going up. Something gotta give.
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Trump is going to start lamenting about people eating dogs again.
 
I find it very odd that that kind of massive and costly kind of renovation to the White House can just be done on the presidents say so without any kind of oversight from other stakeholders such as Congress or the GAO I believe its called or some other oversight body.
 
Genetk44 said:
I find it very odd that that kind of massive and costly kind of renovation to the White House can just be done on the presidents say so without any kind of oversight from other stakeholders such as Congress or the GAO I believe its called or some other oversight body.
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24 Sussex would like a word.


But yea, the idea that such an iconic symbol of the POTUS doesn’t have an independent body safeguarding its identity is odd.
 
Jarnhamar said:
Ontario and BC are producing fentanyl and meth domestically at a surprising and rapidly increasing rate.

Maybe we could get the US to bomb some of those sites while they're at it.
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Katarina Szluc has done some really great reporting on cartel presence and activity in Canada. She paints a grim picture.

FSTO said:
Bred cows are at monster price right now and many an old cattlemen are cashing out. This bubble is going to burst soon because there is no way a young cattleman can grow their herd at these prices. Also feeders cannot make a buck and the processors have so cornered the slaughter market that they are paying the feeders peanuts.
Meanwhile the cost of beef at the store keep going up. Something gotta give.
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For 105$ I got roughly 30 - 40 meals out of the deer I shot last week. And I still have a another deer and bear tag to fill. And that's not including small game.
 
FSTO said:
Bred cows are at monster price right now and many an old cattlemen are cashing out. This bubble is going to burst soon because there is no way a young cattleman can grow their herd at these prices. Also feeders cannot make a buck and the processors have so cornered the slaughter market that they are paying the feeders peanuts.
Meanwhile the cost of beef at the store keep going up. Something gotta give.
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Been a long while since I bought steak even at walmart.
 
Colin Parkinson said:
Been a long while since I bought steak even at walmart.
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I was at a Walmart in rural Pennsylvania last weekend to watch my daughters university soccer game. The price at that Walmart for ribeye steaks (not Angus) was 25.62$ US/lb, which is 56.34$ USD/kg with no currency conversion. Just checking my local Fortinos (owned by Loblaws) where I live and ribeye steaks are 57.30$ CAD/kg. Hamburger (lean) was pretty much the same, dollar for dollar. The cost of chicken at that Walmart, 3.97$ US/lb for boneless, skinless breasts, which is 8.74$ USD/kg. My Fortinos has it for 13.21$ CAD/kg - the US is about a 1$ CAD.kg cheaper.
 
Czech_pivo said:
I was at a Walmart in rural Pennsylvania last weekend to watch my daughters university soccer game. The price at that Walmart for ribeye steaks (not Angus) was 25.62$ US/lb, which is 56.34$ USD/kg with no currency conversion. Just checking my local Fortinos (owned by Loblaws) where I live and ribeye steaks are 57.30$ CAD/kg. Hamburger (lean) was pretty much the same, dollar for dollar. The cost of chicken at that Walmart, 3.97$ US/lb for boneless, skinless breasts, which is 8.74$ USD/kg. My Fortinos has it for 13.21$ CAD/kg - the US is about a 1$ CAD.kg cheaper.
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Gone are the days of deals in the USA. Double whammy is their stuff is usually of alower quality than ours.
 
PrairieFella said:
Gone are the days of deals in the USA. Double whammy is their stuff is usually of alower quality than ours.
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Short story…Taking a family vacay to Florida a few years back. We always bring food and picnic at rest stops along the way. Got a bunch of fresh stuff at our local Walmart, including a triple sized container of cherry tomatoes, for $5.99. Crazy good deal. Got to the border and declared everything. Thought I’d checked what was all allowed and it turns out tomatoes weren’t, so they were disposed of. I hit the Walmart in Watertown to replace my tomatoes and found they had the tiny packages (from the same producer, in California BTW) for the same price. So, they were charging $5.99 USD for the same product at a third of the size. That was when I started noticing how much more expensive provisioning had become in the USA compared to my previous experiences.
 
Swampbuggy said:
Short story…Taking a family vacay to Florida a few years back. We always bring food and picnic at rest stops along the way. Got a bunch of fresh stuff at our local Walmart, including a triple sized container of cherry tomatoes, for $5.99. Crazy good deal. Got to the border and declared everything. Thought I’d checked what was all allowed and it turns out tomatoes weren’t, so they were disposed of. I hit the Walmart in Watertown to replace my tomatoes and found they had the tiny packages (from the same producer, in California BTW) for the same price. So, they were charging $5.99 USD for the same product at a third of the size. That was when I started noticing how much more expensive provisioning had become in the USA compared to my previous experiences.
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It’s it and miss on the pricing.
Stopped at the last rest stop on the I90 going east outside of Buffalo on the Sunday. I wasn’t hungry but my wife got a Chic Fil A meal - so chicken on a bun, waffle fries and a medium Diet Coke - 17.25 USD - unreal.

EDIT: Min wage in Pennsylvania, where we were coming back from visiting my daughter at University, is 7.85$/hr. For restaurant/bar servers. 2.89$/hr!!
 
Czech_pivo said:
It’s it and miss on the pricing.
Stopped at the last rest stop on the I90 going east outside of Buffalo on the Sunday. I wasn’t hungry but my wife got a Chic Fil A meal - so chicken on a bun, waffle fries and a medium Diet Coke - 17.25 USD - unreal.

EDIT: Min wage in Pennsylvania, where we were coming back from visiting my daughter at University, is 7.85$/hr. For restaurant/bar servers. 2.89$/hr!!
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Yep. Had a passable, but nothing special breakfast at an IHOP in Savannah last year. For four people it set me back over $90 USD. The server was a sweet kid so we left a big tip, which was part of that total, though. I have to say she seemed pretty overwhelmed that she got what she did, which was what I considered fair for her service.
 
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