Trump administration 2024-2028

[daftandbarmy]

My bigger concern with the orange haired asshole's comments and threats over the bridge, is what is he really cooking up? Is this bridge a distraction for something else he plans to throw at us? Does he have some deviant shit up his sleeve we don't know? Think ice berg

Or is this simply a case of somebody pissed in his cheerios? Or the cheese sliding off the cracker a bit (ala Biden) and his mental functioning is going bye bye?

That being said, we can assume for argument's sake that Trump is going to try and steal more and more business from us, he is on a path to take every last dime he can from us.

NOW is the time to stop fucking around in our backyard, get things moving big time. Japan, S. Korea, Europe, lots of business out there for Canadian oil (either use bill C5 and/or repeal the stupid laws hindering what we can do for energy development the NUMBER ONE potential driver of our economy)

Bitching about Trump and stomping our feet is getting what done? Not a thing

Oh yes, alot is getting done.

He's winning the Attention War, which is all important if you're running the most powerful, but distracted, country in the world...


Trump wants our attention. Let’s stop falling for his geopolitical clickbait
Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning


When Donald Trump reassured the world that he would not, after all, use force to acquire Greenland – after days of threatening as much – he was doing what he does best: turning geopolitics into a spectacle. Whether Trump ever truly believed the US should acquire a vast Arctic territory belonging to a Nato ally is secondary to the fact that, once again, he ensured that Europe and the rest of the world were focused on his agenda.

Trump is not a politician who responds to events – he seeks to make them. Not because he is deeply invested in policy detail, but because he understands a defining feature of contemporary politics: attention is power. In an era of information overload, there is no scarcity of data or analysis; what is lacking is attention. And whoever controls that controls the debate.

Steve Bannon once described Trump’s domestic strategy as “flood the zone with shit”. In other words, create so many scandals that opponents no longer know which ones matter. The media chases everything, the opposition is perpetually outraged and no one has the mental space to set their own priorities. This logic and the accompanying tactics are now also being deployed by the US in its foreign policy.

Trump’s threats towards Denmark and Greenland were not isolated provocations, but a form of geopolitical clickbait. Their purpose was to dominate the news cycle, push other governments into reactive mode and crowd out longer-term strategic thinking. Greenland was perfect for this. It is strategically important – located in the Arctic, between North America and Europe – yet remote enough that few voters have much detailed knowledge about it. That made it ideal for attention capture: dramatic enough for headlines, vague enough for endless speculation.

Trump wants our attention. Let’s stop falling for his geopolitical clickbait | Catherine De Vries

Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning, says political scientist Catherine De Vries

www.theguardian.com

 

[Czech_pivo]

As some people previously speculated, it appears that a member of the Moroun family was in communication with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just hours before Trump went on his rampage about the Gordie Howe Bridge.

Trump's threat to Canada came hours after backroom meeting with billionaire competitor

A Detroit billionaire who owns a major U.S.-Canada border crossing met privately with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just hours before Donald Trump publicly threatened to block the opening of a competing international bridge, according to a report from The New York Times.Matthew Moroun, whose...

www.rawstory.com

The Moroun family is well known for fucking around in Windsor. They bought up a few streets of housing adjacent to the existing Ambassador Bridge 20 odd years ago and kicked all the families out and boarded up the homes because they were try to force the governments on both sides of the order to allow them to twin the Ambassador Bridge. They even went so far on the US side of the bridge to build without an approval the complete new approaches for the new bridge in hopes of forcing the state of Michigan to allow them to continue since it was already built.
They are shysters.

 

[Lumber]

 

[MilEME09]

The Moroun family is well known for fucking around in Windsor. They bought up a few streets of housing adjacent to the existing Ambassador Bridge 20 odd years ago and kicked all the families out and boarded up the homes because they were try to force the governments on both sides of the order to allow them to twin the Ambassador Bridge. They even went so far on the US side of the bridge to build without an approval the complete new approaches for the new bridge in hopes of forcing the state of Michigan to allow them to continue since it was already built.
They are shysters.

Sounds like we had good reason to build a different bridge