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by the Corporations long before Trump ever got on scene. He and his CABAL just accelerated the RECORD profiteering by the corporations.
Gas & Oil Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Care Industry, Food Industry, etc etc etc.

Most recently, during Biden's last year, they blamed the outrageous inflation on Biden, when in reality, the corporations all ganged together, with un-fathomable increases in price, shrinking the amount of the product, and recording all time RECORD Profits.
With a side effect of trashing Biden and Dems...........

WASF

... and truly sad that so many people have such limited critical thinking capabilities that they actually believe corporatist lies that Biden was somehow responsible for the skyrocketing costs of goods and services. Corporations, and ONLY corporations, are responsible for inflation, because ONLY corporations can jack up the prices of their goods and services. Why is this simple fact so hard for even room-temperature IQs to grasp? A coked-up squirrel can figure this out faster than they can.

Periodic reminder to corporatist sympathizers: Corporatism is what Benito Mussolini preferred to call his form of government. And that fascist fuck wound up hanging from an ESSO gas station marquee.

if for 10-20 years they exclusively listened to them, the Psychiatrists have stated that it is, in fact, leaving them quite literally brainwashed.....

The RepubliCONs have been working to this end, just chipping away for the last 45+ years, since HW and his CABAL fraudulently committed actual TREASON to install their first pawn in the White House.....Ronald Reagan.....

... that the conservative long game has been vastly superior to ours. The pitifully Pollyannic – Oh, look! a new word! –belief that Republicans will behave honorably in any given situation has hamstrung our efforts more times than I can count.
Murdoch's minions and Limbaugh's acolytes will have a lot to answer for. But so, too, will the "If it bleeds, it leads" crowd for giving them print and airtime.
Ayn Rand's insidious influence deserves mention as well. A third-rate novelist with the moral compass of a rabid hyena, her open contempt for empathy and altruism, or common human decency of any sort, has had, and still has, a corrosive effect on political discourse. Case in point: Musk saying that empathy is a fundamental weakness in Western society. The sooner that evil fuck is a grease spot on the floor, the better the world will be.

I am all for street marches, enjoyed one yesterday, but I think when businesses and Wall Street feels the pinch, and we hang that on the GOP support for stupidity, that can have a quicker affect than waiting for 2026.

rich ppl and big corps, it will stop.

eta- i think canada has a stronger manufacturing base than we do. they didnt offshore it all like we did.
they’ll b fine w/o us.

I spelled ‘ruining’

It, or they, went from being "Darrell's Deals" to "Darrell's Canadian Deals."

This ridiculous spat has not only given Canadian solidarity a bit shot in the arm, but has even spurred my wife to a small amount of action. She was born and raised in WNY, and is adamantly "AMERICAN!" in a very quiet way, and will never give up er citizenship. That said, she is a diehard liberal and has bought a Tshirt for her usual summer trip home. It's one of those "Elbows Up!" shirts. I advised that she not wear it in a place as confined as an Amtrak train, and ESPECIALLY not while entering a space as fraught as a border crossing.

She has really come to love Canada, especially social programs like Universal health care and the govt's policy of offering her a survivor's pension that will be a portion (30%, I believe) of my govt pension of $1600 and she is now eligible for the Old Age Security benefit, although that wouldn't be large.

The way it works is to imagine a pie cut into 40 slices. The minimum qualification level is 10 - one for each year you have lived in Canada past the age of 18. After that threshold, the applicant is eligible for one more slice of the pie per year of residence, to a maximum of 40 slices. So far, she is at 14, and won't apply until my death, so she may hit 20 slices or even a little more.

So, with those portions of my govt pensions (apart from a small, private pension that she will also get) added to SS, I hope it will be a livable income.

I must confess, I'm a little worried about the shirt, though. Perhaps it will be an arrestable offence before long,

That the price includes a tariff, "not playing nice"? And where the hell do Americans get off thinking that they have a say in our response? If the US chooses to try and extort most of the world, with tariffs or any other bullshit, then it will get the response that each country, or alliance of countries decide to take.

Loblaws bought it and then tells their customers NOT to buy it.

Don’t blame them one bit.

company. They have a banner that I’ve never seen on their website that said, “Proudly Canadian”. I didn’t even know they were a Canadian company until today.

I bought their waterproof high tops last fall and wore them all winter.

https://vessi.com/

You probably could understand. But instead you let yourself be led around by the nose and believe the embarrassing things Fox and trump tell you.

That's so sad.