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Bruce MacKinnon retweeted
Trump's sniveling over elections that haven't even been held yet. Jeez, what a baby!
Bruce MacKinnon retweeted
🇨🇦 TRUMP PUT A 50% TARIFF ON CANADIAN ALUMINUM. NOW CANADA IS SELLING MORE TO EUROPE, AND AMERICANS ARE PAYING MORE.
There’s just one problem with trying to make America less dependent on Canadian aluminum. America doesn’t produce nearly enough aluminum to meet its own needs.
Canada has long supplied most American imports of primary aluminum. Our hydroelectric-powered smelters produce a metal essential to U.S. automobiles, aircraft, construction and manufacturing.
Trump’s tariffs were supposed to strengthen American industry. Instead, American manufacturers are confronting soaring aluminum premiums while rebuilding domestic production remains enormously expensive and time-consuming.
Meanwhile, something rather inconvenient is happening for Washington.
According to today’s Wall Street Journal, Canadian aluminum shipments to Europe have increased 77% year over year through August.
Think about what that means. America is making Canadian aluminum more expensive for American businesses while encouraging Canadian producers to develop relationships with customers elsewhere.
And those relationships may outlast the tariffs themselves.
There’s nothing wrong with America wanting greater industrial independence. Canada should be pursuing the same objective. But creating domestic production capacity takes years, enormous investment and affordable electricity. Tariffs don’t magically produce any of those things.
So if Americans are paying more for aluminum while Canadians are finding new customers, who exactly is becoming less dependent on whom?
Bruce MacKinnon retweeted
Just finished a quick speaking trip to Canada and was reminded all over again: Canadiens are really nice!
Bruce MacKinnon retweeted
Trump announces he will be "officially BANNING" the term 'AI' after the Wall Street Journal used it in an article.
Bruce MacKinnon retweeted
Every Texas bar has that one guy.
He’s loud. He’s obnoxious. He makes all the women feel uncomfortable. He adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking.
That’s Ken Paxton — and I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.
Bruce MacKinnon retweeted
I have got to be honest. I dont think we are anywhere near the end of the war in Ukraine.
Russia shows no signs of being willing to compromise or being reasonable or realistic. Now they apparently raise a demand that the rest of Eastern Europe have to leave NATO. And they still want to have all of Ukraine.
Europe is not going to abandon hundreds of millions of people in Eastern Europe to live under Russian tyranny again.
We are ten times stronger than Russia and we are not going to agree to such insane demands.
Russia is on the defensive in Ukraine. Over the past six months they have lost - not gained - territory. Their oil refineries are destroyed. Their economy is being crippled and there is no victory in sight for them. Compared to Europe they have a small population and a very small and not very advanced economy.
The only problem is that Russia does not understand this and continues to act like they can bully and threaten their way to dominance over a Europe that is so much stronger than them.
We want peace. Of course. Since the fall of the USSR we have shown no aggression to Russia but have only wanted to live as good and peaceful neighbours. There is literally nobody in Europe that wants war with Russia. It is a mindset that does not exist.
But we are not going to surrender to Russia's insane idea that their weak country has a right to rule half of Europe. As long they stick to that, there will be no settlement. So the war will probably continue for a long time which is a tragedy and a disaster.
Bruce MacKinnon retweeted
Canadian snipers Dominate at Baltic Viper Strike 2026
A Canadian Army sniper team from NATO Multinational Brigade Latvia achieved an outstanding victory at Baltic Viper Strike 2026 in Lithuania, finishing first overall against 18 teams from six nations.
1/n
Bruce MacKinnon retweeted
BREAKING: LOL! Trump totally MELTS DOWN after Obama said that he made the White House look like "Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory" in a hilarious jab.
This is the freakout we were waiting for...
"And you have to remember the White House, we have to explain that to Obama, because he doesn't understand it, because he's not a smart guy," a furious Trump told reporters.
"Let me tell you, in my opinion, he's not smart at all, because the way he ran the country, only a stupid person would run the country like that," he continued. "But we have to explain to Obama that the White House is a symbol of America, and it has to be maintained properly."
Of course, if Obama were actually stupid he would have "maintained" the White House by, say, demolishing our nation's beloved East Wing to build a hideous, unnecessary ballroom. Now THAT would have been stupid...
Or maybe he could have started a disastrous war with Iran on Israel's behalf, driven up gas prices, tanked the economy, and engaged in a widespread coverup of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking network. But no President could possibly be that stupid, right?
"It has to be painted, and the exterior plaster can't be falling off the walls," Trump went on. "And the decorations and ornaments around the windows that are magnificent can't be on one side of the window and falling off on the other side. So we took molds of the one side and we put it on the other side, and we did a beautiful job."
Anyone who has seen pictures of the Oval Office under Trump knows just how perfectly Obama hit the bullseye with his Cheesecake Factory joke. It's atrocious, decked out in cheap fake gold and ugly trim. It's a monument to bad taste and now every foreign leader that visits is immediately reminded that our country is being run by a failed casino operator.
"Very little money spent. It's not about money. It's about seeing," Trump went on. "Guys like Obama don't see it. You don't see dirt. He doesn't see filth. He doesn't see broken ornaments on a building. The White House, to President Obama: Is a symbol of America. It has to be clean."
"The columns can't be broken," Trump huffed on. The bricks can't be falling off from under the plaster. And for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you're a lousy president."
The fact that Trump can get so worked up talking about his taste in aesthetics, but admits that he doesn't care about rising gas prices, just demonstrates what an abject failure he is. Obama baited him, and he took it hook, line, and sinker. Pathetic.
Please ❤️ and share if you think that Obama is a thousand times smarter than Trump!
Bruce MacKinnon retweeted
“He’s not smart at all”
Education
• Columbia University: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in political science (1983).
• Harvard Law School: Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude (1991).
• Harvard Law Review: First African American president of the journal (1990–1991).
Ok bud
Bruce MacKinnon retweeted
Just noting that during *both* game 1 and game 2 the broadcast of the World Series I watched in Toronto aired long, pre-recorded video sequences that only made sense if the LA Dodgers were playing — even though LA was eliminated 4-0 by the Brewers and is not in fact playing. The live commentators in both cases were then left with the task of trying to explain why people had just watched something which was obviously not right. Will we also see Dodgers content in game 3 tonight? Why on earth did that happen? AI? Sports betting? Producers who didn’t check who was actually playing? It is odd.
Bruce MacKinnon retweeted
普京明明能讲一口流利英语，外事谈判却全程装作听不懂。
英国前首相鲍里斯在一次公开谈话里，提到了他近距离接触普京的细节。
他说普京个子不高，身上带着一种阴森的气场。
有一点特别明显：
普京明明英语极好，但在正式场合见外国元首，偏要装作一句不会。
非要在中间安插一个同传。
这其实是特工常用的观察方式。
在谈判桌上，同传把一句话从头翻译到尾，通常需要十来秒。
普京不需要听翻译。
他是在用这多出来的十几秒时间，观察对方的面部表情、瞳孔和肢体动作。
你在等翻译把话翻给他，他已经在脑子里推演你的下一步。
克格勃的习惯，就是把一切细微动作变成心理判断。
但鲍里斯接着讲了另一件事。
他说现在的普京面对乌克兰，表现得像极了《指环王》里的咕噜。
身上那股执念，已经到了悲剧的地步。
看懂《指环王》的人都知道咕噜。
一个被至尊魔戒彻底套住的角色。
整天守着那个发光的圆环，嘴里念叨着“我的宝贝”，哪怕身体枯槁、理智丧失，也绝不可能放手。
鲍里斯用这个比喻，点出了普京如今最大的困境。
这场仗早就不讲什么实际利弊了。
它变成了一个统治者晚年无法走出的个人执念。
他把吞并邻国，当成了证明自己历史功绩的魔戒。
为了这枚魔戒，几十万年轻士兵死在战场，外贸和金融被全面封锁，整个国家被紧紧绑在战车上。
外人都能看出代价有多大。
但他已经不可能松手了。
这就是封闭权力结构最致命的逻辑：
所有的纠错机制，在一个人的执念面前全部失效。
下面没有人敢递真实的情报，身边的幕僚全在顺着他的偏好说话，整个机器只能跟着他的执念往前狂奔。
当年在谈判桌上靠装不懂英语来观察对手的小动作，终究换不来大局的胜算。
当一个人像咕噜一样把一切都押给眼前的执念，
故事的收尾，从来都只有一种可能。
Bruce MacKinnon retweeted
.@jamestalarico: The problem with Ken Paxton is not that he didn't grow up in Texas. It's that he doesn't understand Texas. I believe anyone can be a Texan. It doesn't matter if you're an 8th generation Texan like me, or if you just got here. What makes a Texan is deep in the heart. Texas used to be known as the friendly state. Friendship is our official state motto. The word Texas comes from a Native American word for 'friend.' They used that word to describe a friend in a different tribe. Friendship across tribes. Friendship across divisions. That's what makes Texas so great.
