And on the other hand, he hears ridiculous demands from the CPC and Poilievre.@minibubbly.bsky.social @maej43.bsky.social @anniegirl.bsky.social @ruthmkb.bsky.social @cathiecanada.bsky.social @luciecatnip.bsky.social @merlinofcanada.bsky.social This is viciousness for the sake of being vicious. 😠 #Canada refuses to bend the knee, so Mango Mussolini makes threats. #cdnpoli
— GhostWarrior ⚔️🏳️🌈 🇨🇦🇺🇦 (@ghostwarrior.bsky.social) October 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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John Paul Tasker's CBC report says:Poilievre launches an attack on the PM on the eve of a high-stakes meeting with a regime that wants to break our nation. MAGA Pierre claims he will be open to talking with MAGA America. His only other job experience was working at Dairy Queen (apparently). Put a sock in it Pierre.
— Charlie Angus (@charlieangus104.bsky.social) October 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has penned a scathing letter to the prime minister ahead of his meeting with the U.S. president this week, saying Mark Carney has been a disappointment on the trade file and needs to come back from this trip with some wins for Canada.
In the letter, which was shared with CBC News, Poilievre said Carney promised to "negotiate a win" for Canada and deliver some tariff relief this summer...
There is optimism around Prime Minister Mark Carney's latest meeting U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington about movement on steel and aluminum tariffs....
Carney and a number of cabinet ministers are set to meet with the U.S. president at the White House on Tuesday for what the Prime Minister's Office describes as a face-to-face "focused on shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S."
Poilievre said Carney should lean on him and other Conservatives "to help you keep your promise to 'negotiate a win' on tariffs with the U.S." — an apparent reference to his recent offer to meet with U.S. lawmakers and Trump administration officials on Canada's behalf.
Earlier this year, Poilievre said these trade negotiations are best left to the prime minister of the day.
"I am always happy to help because we all must put Canada ahead of our parties," Poilievre told Carney.
"If you only return with excuses, broken promises and photo ops, you will have failed our workers, our businesses and our country," Poilievre said.
Poilievre's letter didn't say what he would do differently from Carney and his negotiation team to try and secure an agreement with Trump.
Poilievre thinks he can revise reality:
Pierre Poilievre’s Letter Isn’t Helping Canada. It’s Sabotaging It.
Pierre Poilievre's pathetic letter wasn't for Canada. It was to sabotage Mark Carney and, it was a gift-wrapped favour for Donald Trump.
...Poilievre’s letter to Carney is a doozy. The main complaint is that Carney has “failed” on tariffs because Trump doubled them. This is a fundamentally ridiculous premise. Attacking Carney for Trump’s tariffs is like blaming the goalie because the other team keeps cheating.
Let’s be clear about something Pierre seems to have missed. Donald Trump’s tariffs are his entire political personality. You do not negotiate with them; you build a strategy to protect your people from them. These tariffs hit everyone, including America’s closest allies like the United Kingdom, Japan, and even Israel.
Despite this global pressure, Canada still has one of the lowest effective tariff rates in the world. Most of our exports to the U.S. remain tariff-free under the CUSMA agreement. Carney’s team is in Washington to fight for relief on the brutal steel tariffs, a realistic goal that could open the door for other sectors. He is in the room, negotiating from a position of strength. Meanwhile, Poilievre’s idea of a strategy is to write an angry letter and hope the CBC reads it on air.
Which they did...
...When the leader of His Majesty’s Opposition publicly attacks Canada’s negotiating position, who benefits? It is not Canadian steelworkers. It is not our exporters. It is the person on the other side of the table. Every time Poilievre takes a swing at Carney, the MAGA crowd in Washington cheers a little louder. He is not fighting Trump’s tariffs; he is amplifying Trump’s message.
This fits a disturbing pattern. This is the same guy who refuses to get the national security clearance required for top-level briefings. The same clearance every other serious party leader accepts. At a time when Canada needs a united front, Poilievre is sending a clear signal to Washington: our house is divided. Ignore our Prime Minister; I am ready to give you a better deal. It is a pathetic and dangerous game to play with our country’s future....
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Yeah, so is it small-minded and mean of me to wonder now if the message to Trump is that Poilievre and the CPC want to be able to take credit for any tariff deals Carney is able to get?
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Of course expectation are low. Carney has to negioatae with a guy who put tariffs on a island of penguins
— ltmcdies 🇨🇦 (@ltmcdies.bsky.social) October 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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What ICE Barbie's video didn't show was the dozens of innocent people in pajamas zip-tied on the street and children screaming and their homes being trashed, all for what ended up to be the arrest of two (2) suspected gang members plus a few undocumented immigrants.Chicago, we’re here for you. pic.twitter.com/BZdLgNfiqu
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) October 4, 2025
...Trump, as well, warned that if Democrats do not support the Republican bill to continue to fund the government, his administration will cut Democratic priorities. “We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn’t want, and they’d be Democrat things,” he said on Tuesday.
With his threats to cut their funds and occupy their cities with armed forces, Trump seems to see Democratic-led states — and the people in them — less as constituents to which he has a set of larger obligations and more as enemies to be pacified and defeated. For Trump, there is no whole people of the United States. There are only his people and his states.
This narrow and exclusionary view of the country is a betrayal of the president’s oath to the Constitution. It’s also dangerous. The integrity of the American union depends, in part, on a relationship of equality and fairness among the states and between the states, their people and the federal government. To begin to treat Americans and their leaders as outside the national community because of whom they voted for — to tie the rights of American citizenship to partisan loyalty — is to begin to strain the bonds of union.
If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this.
From vicious immigration raids to the withholding of federal aid after wildfires, Trump's direct assaults on blue states are escalating every day. But waiting until the midterms to repel Trump's siege on democracy, @clarajeffery.bsky.social warns, is too late. It's time to break glass.
— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) October 5, 2025 at 9:53 PMThe power behind Trump's throne now is White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller who is running the ICE Gestapo, immigration policy, homeland security and his mouth:
Miller has Fascist Hissy #3 today after another court ruling. This one from a judge appointed by radical left marxist Donald J Trump.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) October 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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From Immergut opinion: "Pres is certainly entitled “a great level of deference ..But a great level of deference is not equivalent to ignoring the facts on the ground. Must reflect a colorable assement w/in a range of honest judgment. The President’s determination was simply UNTETHERED TO THE FACTS."
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) October 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Also, this was a non-glitch glitch - Miller started talking about Trump's unlimited authority ("plenary power"), realized what he was saying, then just 'couldn't hear' the interviewer anymore:Hard to listen to his weird little valley girl cadence here but this is just him doing his favorite routine, the idea that because Trump won the election he's entitled to do whatever he wants, and anyone who suggests there are limits to presidential power is anti-democratic. It's very fascist though
— Hemry, Local Bartender (@bartenderhemry.bsky.social) October 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Stephen Miller: "ICE officers have to street battle against Antifa, hand to hand combat every night."
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) October 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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But if you look closely at the videos above, you realize how Miller cuts a ridiculous figure:
And also ridiculous is the supposed street violence the ICE Gestapo are facing:I am not sure that Stephen Miller has ever been this owned
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) October 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Which isn't to say that Miller isn't terrifying. But AOC knows how to deal with him:
Personally, I suspect Stephen Miller is about to experience the Trump Whack-A-Mole -- whenever someone sticks their head up too high in the Trump administration, Trump gets pissed off and fires them. Musk got a bunch of publicity in March and he was gone by May. Now Miller is getting a bunch of publicity - including some ridiculous Fox News stuff about how he is a "sexual matador" [guffaw!]-- so I suspect he will be gone by American Thanksgiving.View on Threads
It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.
— David Roberts (@volts.wtf) October 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The way we could regain control of this country is to convince Uday, Qusay, & Javanka that Stephen Miller is endangering their (ill-gotten) fortunes.
— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) October 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Stay salty, Chicago:
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America hates ICE:
"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.
— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) October 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation. Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social) October 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.
— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) October 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Keep Don Winslow's point in mind, too:
If you ever listened to me, listen now:
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) September 30, 2025
Donald Trump has crashed the economy. This will be clear over the next months. He can't fix it. They've fucked it up that bad.
So now we're in for a terror storm of fake emergencies, fake crisis, manufactured wars & chaos to hide it all.
And on a funny note:
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This too:
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I don't understand why Carney is meeting with Trump. Normally, leaders only meet once a deal's worked out and ready to sign. If that were the case, we would have heard about it.
Running to Washington at Trump's beck and call seems like a mistake. It hasn't helped any of the leaders who've done it. In fact, Trump uses the opportunity to humiliate them, like he did with the leader of South Korea whose pen he asked to see and then pocketed, or Starmer whose "historic trade deal" was exposed as a binder full of blank pages. Grey rock is the tried and true way of dealing with a Cluster B personality like Trump. I have a hard time seeing any upside to Carney's meeting him.
I agree with Cap. tRump needs a percieved win for the farmers he is destroying. Get ready for the end of healthy, properly inspected food with dairy being the first casualty.
Hope I'm wrong.
I am trying to think of a single good thing Carnival Carny has done since he got elected.
Well, we'll see I guess
Looks like Carney didn't get his pocket picked, but didn't get a deal either.
From the CBC,
Prime Minister Mark Carney has left the White House after his second D.C. meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.
During the meeting, Trump said the fentanyl crisis is "never going to be over" but Canada is doing a "much better job."
The president made a couple 51st state references, joking that it could be a "merger."
Trump called Carney a "world-class leader" and a "tough negotiator."
I read this as tariffs will continue with the original aim of getting Canada to join the US. Trump doesn't joke and at this stage it's a dishonest reporter who says he does.
I agree; there is no value in being a Trump lackey. Does Carney make his own decisions or does some one else make demands he can't refuse?
Trump throws shit at the fan and waits to see what sticks!!!
Not the best policy but the best one to test what the market will bare; and that's what counts in these days!!
Policy ,Morality legality , does not even become part of the discussion nowadays!!!
Welcome to serfdom , a time honoured tradition!!!!
TB
Cap - "I don't understand why Carney is meeting with Trump. Normally, leaders only meet once a deal's worked out and ready to sign." There's nothing "normal" when it comes to dealing with Trump.
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