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“Two days later, however, Trump said that Mexico would not be required to pay tariffs on any goods that fall under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal until April 2 out of ‘respect’ for Sheinbaum following a phone call between the two leaders.

Sheinbaum then said Sunday's rally would be a ‘festival.’

‘So far it has yielded results and I think it will continue to do so,’ Sheinbaum said of the "respectful dialogue" with the United States.”

You are okay being tariffed extra on the goods not covered by USMCA (from memory 40%) and the Gulf of Mexico being renamed to Gulf of America?
 
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NATO Chief Silenced by Trump’s Bonkers Canada Rant

The president fantasized about the new shape the U.S. would take with Canada annexed.
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President Donald Trump gushed about his dreams of expanding America’s borders by taking over Canada while the NATO chief sat silently beside him.

“Canada only works as a state...If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it, between Canada and the U.S., just a straight artificial line. Somebody did it a long time ago, many, many decades ago, and makes no sense,"

“'It’s so perfect as a great and cherished state,' he said, before announcing the northern neighbor would be allowed to keep its national anthem, O Canada. 'I love it. I think it’s great. Keep it, but it will be for the state, one of our greatest states, maybe our greatest state.'"

So much for Rutte and NATO members coming to the defence of others.
 
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Canada rolled out a very little red carpet for Marco Rubio:

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Trump's quest to conquer Canada is confusing everyone

Canadians and Republicans alike are confounded as President Donald Trump increasingly links a trade war to his push to annex America's northern neighbor.
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“What also confounds Republicans about Trump’s idea is that annexing Canada would potentially add millions more Democrats to American voter rolls. Canada is a liberal-leaning nation with a population larger than California. Were Canada to become a state, it could mean 50 more House seats and two additional senators — auguring a real power shift in government.”

Can someone remind me in Anschluss whether Germany already pre calculated the number of representative government positions that would be added after taking over Austria or Czechoslovakia?
 
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Trump signs order to gut Voice of America, other agencies

The order also targets agencies providing funding for museums, libraries and tackling homelessness.
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"In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Lake said that while she understood calls to completely dismantle VOA, she believed it could be improved"

I was about to think Kari Lake didn't get the memo.
 
Offering the customer title ‘Nasty Canadian’ to the highest bidder.
 
Danish MP Rasmus Jarlov:

As a decision-maker in Denmark’s F-35 purchase, I regret it.

The U.S. can disable them simply by cutting off spare parts. They are willing to harm allies like Canada and could one day threaten Denmark—demanding Greenland and risking our security.

Buying American weapons is a risk we can’t afford. As we invest in defense, we must avoid U.S. arms, and I urge our allies to do the same.
 
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Jon Stewart pissed on him in this week's show when he said his master strategy was getting at Republicans in the gym .. “when you’re on that bike in your shorts, panting away next to a Republican, a lot of the inhibitions come off.”

Also this at 8:37

 
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Wrongly deported man not leaving El Salvador prison, Bukele says at Trump meeting

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland sheet metal worker, was wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
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"I don't have the power to return him to the United States. We're not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country.”

And in other news the Trump administration will facilitate the man’s return. Facilitate as in El Salvador needs to start it first.
 
She sounds pleasant. Especially when talking about that guy deported to EL Salvador.

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Senate Democrats who took heat for government shutdown vote now feel vindicated

They say allowing a GOP funding bill to pass has allowed Democrats to keep their focus on Trump as his tariffs have roiled the global economy.
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“'I was right,' Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, who caucuses with Democrats, told NBC News of his vote to keep the government open.

'I concluded, along with others, that a shutdown would actually further empower Trump and Musk to pursue what they’re doing,' King said. 'We would have handed him a gift. Anything bad that happened to the economy would have been blamed on us.'”

Isn't this like Hindenburg vis-à-vis Hitler?
 
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India-US ties: Modi and Vance praise progress in trade talks as higher tariffs loom

US Vice-President JD Vance is currently on a four-day visit to India with his wife and three children.
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"Usha Vance's parents migrated to the US from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, and some media reports have said that Vance and his wife are keen to introduce their children to their Indian heritage.

Photographs of the three children wearing Indian-style outfits - the two boys in kurta-pyjamas and three-year-old Mirabel wearing a lehenga - on their arrival in India were splashed across Indian newspapers and websites."

Awww...
 
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The things that unite us all.

What happens when the bloke in the back says, "Gents I need your chairs"?
 
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Amazon says it won't list tariff charges on ultracheap Haul site after White House calls idea 'hostile'

The back-and-forth comes as online retailers have become among the first and most visible places where consumers are confronting higher prices due to tariffs.
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“The team that runs our ultra low cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products. This was never approved and is not going to happen.”

Join the rest of the corporate world and just call it a handling or service charge. I'm still paying for a fuel surcharge from the George W Bush days. Oil is cheap now. We're not even fighting other countries over it.
 
Hahahah, Walz was caught by the press on Signal during the briefing today!

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Donald Trump is looming over Australia's election

Foreign policy is rarely a big factor in Australia's poll - but the US president has changed that.
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"'Tariffs are great,' exclaims rodeo fan Guy Algozzino, who's dressed in a cowboy hat, a waistcoat and a Western-style bolo tie with an engraved image of a cowboy riding a bull. 'We should have had tariff protection many years ago - it looks bad now [but] America's fantastic … Trump's the best thing America ever had.'"

The most beautiful word in the English language.
 
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