Re: last minute sabatoge of trade talkes

On Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:29:35 -0000 (UTC), Tara <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Aug 22, 2026 at 12:16:31?PM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:43:20 -0000 (UTC), Tara <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Aug 22, 2026 at 11:33:12?AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:09:05 -0000 (UTC), Tara <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 22, 2026 at 10:59:55?AM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:51:21 +0100, Julian <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 22/08/2026 14:39, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>>> Tara <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> For any Americans here who may be interested, we pretty well had a trade
>>>>>>>>> DEAL until just before the deadline last night when the Americans came in
>>>>>>>>> with more demands - unrealistic demands that Canada could not accept.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> We are retaliating - dollar for dollar.
>>>>>>>>> 50% tariffs now. Both ways.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> To all the Americans who voted for this President and his administration  -
>>>>>>>> and continue to support him - i hope there is a hell and you rot in it.
>>>>>>> Chill, he's nearly done and hoping for something better is
>>>>>>> thinking most wishful. After a few years of your neighbour
>>>>>>> being run by the DSA you'll probably miss the loon.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yeh, not everybody agrees with your politics julian, as I need to
>>>>>> remind wilson from time to time as well.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You buddy Bill Maher agrees with Julian's view. How could that be, eh?
>>>> 
>>>> I suspect that Bill meant it as constructive criticism as most of his
>>>> criticisms of the dems are.  He donated a million dollars to the
>>>> biden/himbo election.  Still, at that time, he was getting  dems on
>>>> his program and asking them, why don't they get tough like the r's,
>>>> why is it that the dems are so roundly hated in many parts of the
>>>> country?
>>>> 
>>>> The most honest answer I heard was, if we do what they do, we become
>>>> like them.  I understand.  Principles matter.  What to do when so many
>>>> americans no longer care for principles?  When they actually cheer for
>>>> the asshole?
>>>> 
>>>> But, as I told wilson a few days ago, the continued nomination of DSA
>>>> candidates around the country, even in areas thought solidly
>>>> conservative, portends something.  It might even be that attitudes are
>>>> changing.  Maybe.  Watch out.
>>> 
>>> When Maher supported the dems then, they were different than they are now.
>>> Like he says, parties change. Right now, he's just warning about what he sees,
>>> (the DSA) in the U.S.A. and he's scrared shitless about it. DSA - The Trump
>>> backlash, two sides of the same coin
>>> - equally crazy.
>>> 
>>> check it out why don't you.
>> 
>> I heard what he said.  If he is scared shitless about anything, it
>> would be that DSA candidates would spoil the dem's chances to getting
>> control of congress in nov.  There is some risk of that, I think.  So
>> thanks bill for doing your best to head off that possibility.  I know
>> your heart is in the right place.
>> 
>> In the past, bill has said that comedy goes where the funny is, and
>> usually the r's have had most of his attention.  Lately the dems have
>> been deserving as well.
>> 
>> I would say, that the last thing the dems need right now is to be
>> split ideologically.  Fercrissake.
>> 
>> Specifically, in that monologue, he said, "some of you guys are
>> saying, bill you have become a republican.  That is not what I said. I
>> said my vote is in play."  So he is reminding dems that they still
>> need to get smart.
>> 
>> Notice the different tone in this:
>> 
>> "After a few years of your neighbour being run by the DSA you'll
>> probably miss the loon."
>
>He's not saying that it's inevitable. He's saying that if this happens, it may
>seem worse than what we have to deal with now.
>He's saying that it looks like it's going that way now. It's a speculation.
>And a suggestion/prediction of an outcome. 
>> 
>> Contempt, which is julian's stock in trade.  Always contempt if
>> nothing else.
>
> You read it that way.

Yes, your phrasing is generous.  His is not.  So I read it that way.
-- 
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian  shrinks in horror and warns others away