Hard to keep them elbows up when you're grovelling on the floor Mark.
Nope, but running Elbows Up ads, smear commercials, and being derisive and dismissive of him isn't working. Then they (we) always end up apologizing, and backpedalling. Look how far this tough attitude has gotten us. I can't put enough quotation marks around tough, so I won't even bother.
Probably not, as evidenced by the conservative hardass running Ontario.
You have to be kidding…..right? Who would you rather have in charge of negotiations like CUSMA….someone who has done nothing other than be a career politician, an elected MP since the age of 25?…..or, a previous Governor of the Bank of Canada, a governor of the Bank of England, 13 years at Goldman Sachs, Chairman of the Financial Stability Board, holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard…..hmmmm? Now that’s a tough decision.
They're so not worried about him now that they're thinking about calling another election so they can win the majority LOL
I do not think you are reading the room on this. The walls are crumbling, tumbling down. Nice to see what is happening in Washington, finally. The redactions will be gone, and the truth will make some people wonder how they ended up on the wrong side of this.
And now this! Seems his threats didn't work on this one.
My point was that nobody took him seriously, and treated him like an imbecile, without considering the consequences. The USA, ultimately can stand alone for the most part. The countries that depend on them? Not so much. Coming out swinging against him fails time and time again and all the leaders that have taken that approach look like embarrassed buffoons at the end of the day. Just paper tigers threatening from a position of no power. And let's also remember, if they really really need our potash and oil to survive? They can just come and take it.
Sounds eerily similar to the ill fated attempts by Neville Chamberlain to appease Germany in the days leading up to WWII. We all know how that strategy worked out. No, fortunately our government has taken a very measured and logical approach to dealing with this madman. Keeping the message simple, uncomplicated and factual is the only way to weather the next 2 years. In the meanwhile, continuing to expand our trading patterns and forge new, more reliable alliances around the world.
Forging new alliances is fine, but dipping our feet in with the CCP and scrapping their tariffs entirely whilst calling for a new world order would sure piss off any US leader.. It was a bad idea from the start and China may not ever touch Taiwan as they've been threatening to take the island countless times over the last 75 years, but the US has shown they're not afraid to take military action against any country they see as a threat to their world dominance.
