Cafeteria food doesn’t have to suck. It’s just in the US they use the cheapest food to subsidize farmers.

No there will not be. But Xi is a full on dictator and Trump still has congress to answer to.

But this is a Covid level supply chain event. Once the economy starts to grind to a halt and inflation kicks in on common household items Trump will come under pressure to back down.

Trump is going to loose this trade war in 6 months or less.

We at about to have Covid level disruptions to our supply chain. Over 80 cargo vessels have canceled sailings. Think about the amount of goods we are not going to get in 3 weeks time. Yeah China will loose money and will be hurt by the trade war but they can find other markets.

The USA is going to have epic supply chain disruptions. We wont have consumer goods or components for manufacturing within 6 weeks. It’s going to be a shit show unless Trump backs down.

https://www.asiafinancial.com/transpacific-cargo-trade-decimated-by-trumps-tariff-war

There is literally only one. It has been twisted into a pretzel of ignorance and illogical fallacies but there is only one. If you think there are more than 1, I’d be happy to read the source

Feel free to read it, seems like you could use an education.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-2/

Correct, thanks for the live example. Unlike Americans, it seems we noticed and learned… you lived through the first tRump term and decided you wanted more punishment

Lol, please Canadians learned nothing until Trump started talking trash about Canada. Before then Canadians saw Trump v1 and decided they wanted their own shit tier version with French subtitles. BTW I voted for the lady with the economics degree. I didn’t vote for this shit.

No, your reading comprehension lacks competence. The USA is under a fascist regime and as such, an armed resistance should be forming. Canada is not under the same threat (except from the USA) and more importantly, we do not have the “right to bear arms” for a well regulated militia.

I can read just fine. Once again you seem to be advocating for armed violence. BTW YOU are the one who decided to comment about our American 2A rights and now you want to crawl away and hide behind your lack of rights. Pathetic.

A complete non-sequitur… My comment on you having the “fuck you, got mine” mentality is based entirely on your claim you are not willing to move a finger for anyone other than yourself AND that you do not think tRump is enough of a dictator to do anything about it. I am simply pointing out that you think the tRump has not “crossed the line” is that you have not been personally affected by his fascist government. It has literally zero to do with my suggestion an armed resistance should form nor am I even condemning it at all LOL The only violence I am condemning in my comment is the fact that the idiots armed in the USA only brought school shootings… and yes, I condemn school shootings, don’t you? let me guess, it has not affected you directly so probably you’d say “we are not there yet”

Wow that was amazing, contradicting yourself in back to back sentences. You start out by stating I’m a selfish jerk for not actively shooting people who are shooting at me. Then you advocate for me to shoot people who are not shooting at me. Then you top it off with a tangent about school shootings where you then condemn shooting people.

Pick a lane and stay in it. You sound like a 🤡.

To be clear, the only stance I have taken is for self defense and that I have no obligation to put myself in danger defending you. I also advocate that we are no where near the need for armed violence against others.

It says a lot about you when you choose to cite the weakest Indiana Jones movie.

But hey your the one who’s plan is to wait for someone else to save you sooo… 🤷🏻

Anyone with common sense would have spotted that… but the sole reason your constitution allows such carefree access to guns was supposed to be so you can defend YOUR OWN COUNTRY against fascism… The point being in that it is now proven there is no value in allowing people to freely carry guns; it’s a net detriment to society

There are many reasons the right to gun ownership is enshrined in the constitution. Resisting or eliminating tyranny is the most extreme example. But anyone not trying to make hyperbolic anti-2A statements would know this. There is great value in carrying guns. Statistically speaking conceal and carry card holders are the most law abiding segment of society.

As a Canadian I do, we just do it in a civic way as Fascism has not hit us yet…

Lol, your Conservative Party candidate Pierre Poilievre was well on his way to winning handily until Trump derailed him with his 51st state and tariff antics. I also seem to remember far right truckers shutting down your highways a few years ago. As much as Canadians love to think they are different from the US, you’re not. You just might get lucky that Trump scared your moderate voters away from facism.

Nobody is asking you… but you keep missing the part where a public shooting is a reality for you since so many people can have guns with almost no preparation, safety or responsibility. Feel free to keep living in your Rambo hero fantasy

Your moral compass seems to lack direction. You were just advocating for armed insurrection in the US on your last post. Now you advocate for non violence? BTW Rambo fantasy? How is stating that you would finding a safe place and defending your life with your firearm instead of run and gunning it with an active shooter a Rambo fantasy? You seem to have such a rabid anti gun stance that it clouds your judgement.

Let me guess, you think that because they have not come for you yet?.. “fuck you, got mine” is a lousy way to build a society.

See my statement above about advocating for violence and then condemning. This is truly Olympic level mental gymnastics to justify your hypocrisy.

If you want to have that victim mentality grindset and be dependent upon others that is entirely your decision.

Side note: We now have confirmation that a heavily armed population providers deplorable stats on violence and school shootings while doing exactly nothing to prevent the rise of tyranny… well done USA

Yeah my dude, just because I carry or have firearms doesn’t mean I’m obligated to protect you or your rights.

YOU have an obligation to provide for your safety and to advocate for your rights.

If there was a public shooting, I have no legal obligation to protect anyone. My goal would be to find a place of safety for me and my family and use my gun to eliminate or at least dissuade the attacker from going after me and mine. You and yours are on your own.

We are also not nearly at the point of armed rebellion or insurrection here in the US. If you feel this strongly about it perhaps you should take responsibility for yourself and arm yourself instead of depending on others to do it for you.

I hear what you are saying, but I still like to see Nazis hurt.

Let’s make Tesla a penny stock.

What’s up homie, how is that Genocide Joe and Anti Harris shit working out for you?

Hey just checking in friend it has been awhile. Man crazy times right now.

So how is the whole Genocide Joe and not voting for Kamala thing working out for you?

Promise me when they come for you, that you’ll send me a PM!

VGK is a FTSE ETF that I’ve held since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It has done well even with the recent drop.

VYMI is a European dividend fund that is fairly stable and generates dividend revenue. However you won’t see huge valuation swings.

Just keep in mind Europe doesn’t have a good track record of growth in newer high tech industry. Since 2000 the US and China have outperformed it. However past results don’t indicate future performance… but if Europe doesn’t enact major economic reforms, I wouldn’t put much faith in it.

JD Vance is a douche canoe who would ramp it up 2x or 3x and would likely do the bidding of whatever master he follows now.

But no one likes the guy and I doubt he could inspire Trumps followers to the same degree Trump does. Without that rabid core base his power falls apart. Without a true leader, MAGA will start going at each others throats. There are too many factions both held together and held in check by Trump.

Cold War wouldn’t dominate the news cycle enough.

Some say we may be in the opening stages of WW3 so I’m imagining full on war or domestic instability/insurrection.

Of course an unchecked pandemic should always be on anyone’s bingo card moving forward as well.

America has the largest and richest consumer base. We are one of the few major economies to have a large population of millennials and gen z.

Who will Japan, Germany and China sell their shit to? There isn’t a market that can replace the US. The US also simply can’t make everything we like to consume. Which is why we are now headed for recession/stagflation.

This is a dead cat bounce. Nothing fundamentally has changed until Trump is out of office. There is no one talking him down from his bad decision making.

He will move onto the next grift or scandal so he can dominate the next news cycle and make the old one go away. Eventually he will come back to fuck with the economy again.

Rinse & Repeat/Round and round we go until he hits something big he can’t make go away like Covid did in his first term. Then he will loose it.

If you want my bet on what that is, it will be a major war.

No he won’t give tariffs up. This was his latest gift to make 10% tariffs on everything seem not so bad. I’m willing to bet 10% was always his goal and the crazy numbers he threw out were there to make 10% seem reasonable.

The problem is after 4 months of attacking allies, siding with dictators, reneging on prior trade agreements he negotiated, and being called out for it globally. This latest economic grift wiped any trust the US had left.

The US is uninvestable while he is in power. You can’t make major investments be it a billion dollar factory complex or some small business importing goods to build a product. You could be wiped out because of a mood swing or Orange Mussolini’s latest grift.

Worse his tariffs put many US manufacturers at a disadvantage compared to foreign competitors. He’s just set the stage for a definite recession, long term slow economic growth or at worse a depression if the bond market fully breaks down.

Even if he can get tax cuts passed they won’t do shit to put it all back together.

I agree this is just market euphoria. We have a lot of systemic issues that have been exacerbated and/or entirely created by Trump.

The core problem is Trump full stop. He is sitting in the White House with nothing but “Yes” men in his cabinet. It’s only a mater of time until he releases his next scheme on the market.

It’s not a big deal. Rare earth minerals aren’t that rare.

It’s the refining of rare earth minerals which is energy intensive and causes a great deal of pollution.

It was nice that China was destroying their own environment and spending the capital to build power plants. Now we will have to invest the capital to do it ourselves.