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Doesn’t matter, in fact I don’t think anyone here even cares where SCOTUS stands on the issue. SCOTUS has never been the target of the ads.

B.C. will go ahead with anti-tariff ads despite Trump blow-up over Ontario ads on US TV this weekend:

https://globalnews.ca/news/11497014/bc-anti-tariff-ads-trump/

When Trump gets past his tantrum we’re here to support his every need. In the meantime he just needs to suck his thumb and enjoy the World’s Series.

The mullahs support base is outside Tehran among the rural peasantry and small towns. Those were the Iranians who supported Khomeni’s counterrevolution in 1979 and have kept the mullahs in power ever since. I really don’t see that base breaking from the theocracy anytime soon. The young Iranian intelligentsia in Tehran is in no better a position than it was twenty or more years ago when it challenged the peasant supported mullahs.

Flu shot yesterday, Covid next week. I prefer to take them separately at least a week to ten days apart. Don’t ask why, just a personal preference.

It really is little more than an extravagantly expensive distraction for all parties concerned. But that seems to be what the current WH Administration is all about. Extravagance and distraction.

Possible that the ad itself had little to do with Trump’s tantrum:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-ford-ad-tariffs-carney-analysis-9.6952538

@Mik said in O Canada:

Not clever to cherry pick and change the order. Taking something out of context that says what you want it to is frequent. Cut and pasting it like you're CBS is foolish. You can't get away with it.

It’s what is done. Whether it’s a good idea or not. Suffice to say that Reagan believed wholeheartedly in free trade as a means of bringing nations together. In the case of North America he saw it as a single market with few if any barriers to trade and investment. In that sense the Ontario ad is right on target.

@Tom-K said in O Canada:

@Axtremus said in O Canada:

... because, according to Trump, "Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement" featuring former president Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.

I haven't seen it but that seems like a pretty clever thing to do. Good for the Canadians.

Here is the ad in its entirety:

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6951639

And here is an objective breakdown down of the ad itself:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz1e201r8o

Anything involving the five families makes for great prime time TV.

In any case is there a reason the battery went flat? Age? Lights left on? If the battery is relatively new and there is no apparent cause you might have an intermittent short somewhere (possibly in the ignition switch itself) that drains the battery. When you jumpered the system, the sudden jolt caused the spark and blew a fuse. In any case shorts like this can sometimes be difficult to locate without the proper diagnostic equipment.

Should not have sparked from the battery if it was connected properly. Check fuses first. Do you have a trickle charger with an amperage guage?

@jon-nyc said in The Sad Cognitive Decline of a President:

Something occurred to me recently.

If Trump has or gets dimentia, how would we even know?

He might start sounding marginally coherent?

Putin’s response via the children of Kharkiv, to Melania Trump’s letter:

https://www.rferl.org/amp/ukraine-kharkiv-kindergarten-russia-drone-strike-rescue/33566832.html

Budapest Summit indefinitely postponed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gjp73gp41o

@Tom-K

Well, some have argued similarities and parallels between Trump and Juan Peron.

For example here:

https://reason.com/2025/08/22/trump-is-embracing-the-same-economic-populism-that-destroyed-argentina/?nab=1

There are others.

City of Richmond has no jurisdiction over land titles. Nor do any other municipalities. Exclusively provincial jurisdiction. No BC government, particularly the current one with a majority of one, will disrupt the status quo of private land holdings and titles in favour of Aboriginal land claims. The BC Supreme Court ruling in any case is by no means absolute- this could end up in Federal Courts as constitutional issue where it will be shot down.

I will not apologize for what I wrote last week on this subject. This is a nothing burger from the get go along with the other BC First Nations claims to what amounts to 110% or more of British Columbia. All this does is distract and stir up unwarranted gossip leading to hysteria and reaction.

@Tom-K said in The Ukraine war thread:

The only reason to end the war is to spare the suffering and death of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. But if you don't care about that….. Putin is like Hamas--as long as they get what they want in the end human suffering really doesn't matter.

No it doesn’t. What only matters is Putin’s own megalomaniac legacy to become the greatest Russian autocrat since Peter the Great. That legacy includes all of what remains of sovereign Ukraine and whatever other coveted imperial morsel he can steal by subterfuge or brute force.

Perhaps it was just me, but I didn’t hear anything in that clip other the Yankee accents.

I guess there’s plenty of Yankee expats living and working in the area. If I were one I’d be out there with them. I liked the “Hands off Canada” slogan. No wonder we want no part of being a republocrat state.

There’s a lot there for reflection.