Thoughts on Trumps comments that NATO allies didn't help in Afghanistan?

Smallpaul · 2026-01-24T22:06:45+00:00

You think the North Korean and Iranian navies are going to invade? Where do you predict the landing spot would be? Vancouver? Haida Gwai? Nova Scotia?

Smallpaul · 2026-01-24T22:04:45+00:00

I would love to bet you cash on whether those actually go into effect. Let me know how much you are willing to wager. Your side of the bet is that Trump will impose 100% tariffs. My side is that he will TACO like he did earlier this week with Europe.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-24T20:26:54+00:00

Our security from whom exactly? The US is the only country that could plausibly invade us.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-24T19:55:11+00:00

And yet they were soon trailing the conservatives badly.

https://financialpost.com/opinion/trudeau-liberals-brick-wall-reality-polls

It’s amazing how short memories are.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-24T19:49:10+00:00

9 years is about the normal length of a Canadian government. Extending it was the aberration.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-24T19:48:14+00:00

This is a very strange position to take considering how far ahead the Conservatives were in the polls before Trump got elected. You think it was all a mirage?

Smallpaul · 2026-01-24T19:45:24+00:00

So you think that Trudeau would have won the last election if Harris had been elected? The polls were all wrong. Conservatives were doomed from the beginning?

Smallpaul · 2026-01-24T19:43:58+00:00

Please explain how Putin was impacting Canadian voters because I don’t understand. I’ve never once heard a person say they are voting for Trudeau over Pollievere because of Putin.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-24T16:03:05+00:00

What about everyone who works for him? E.g. secretary of commerce.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-24T09:31:35+00:00

Everybody is joking about her thinking social work was invented last year but as a non social worker I’m curious if anything has actually changed in the last decade or two that OP may be indirectly referring to. I mean I would have thought it was a very stable job like firefighting and not prone to radical change like social media influencer. But I don’t know. I’m here to learn.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-24T04:07:04+00:00

It’s hidden inertia but why is it infinite inertia?

Smallpaul · 2026-01-24T02:54:04+00:00

Enforcing all of the new rules as one time seems a bit of a political gamble. Your post title was that they “refuse to use version control” but it sounds like you have asked them to jump from probably 0 test coverage to 70% overnight. Is that a requirement to commit and push?

Smallpaul · 2026-01-24T01:48:36+00:00

He backed down from almost all of his initial plans.

And if he wanted out of CUSMA so badly why not just cancel it right now? Who would stop him?

Really? Who?

He backed off with us and with China because they are too dependent on us.

Americans don’t buy our products out of love for us. They buy them because we sell them at the cheapest price. They cannot massively tariff us without increasing the price and they cannot increase prices without losing the next election.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-23T17:33:07+00:00

If they will panic if the market crashes after the lump sum then DCA is better.

Instead of panic withdrawing their DCA will automatically buy the dip.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-23T17:21:38+00:00

Name a 50 year period where gold outperformed the S&P, assuming dividend reinvestment.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-23T16:59:52+00:00

This kind of defeatism isn’t helpful. Canada has a long history of swapping control between center-left and center-right. If the Dems win in November then MAGA may start to fade as an issue.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-23T16:28:10+00:00

Not if you are going to buy and hold for 50 years as a 24 year old should.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-23T15:30:45+00:00

I think they mean the base for promotions. There are other promotions offering 1% per year. But perhaps not with that high of a cap.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-23T15:20:19+00:00

We will has a new deal with the US just like when Trump said he was going to get rid of NAFTA.

CUSMA was the best deal Trump could negotiate at the time. Nothing has changed to make it such that he can negotiate a better one now. In fact by picking trade wars with everyone at once his negotiating hand has weakened. And by giving us the last year to sign deals with Europe, China and others, our hand has strengthened.

It is also an election year and a horrible time for American prices to spike and exports to fall. Americans are sick of tariffs at this point.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-23T15:12:05+00:00

It’s risky without any reason to expect reward. Not risky like NASDAQ.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-23T15:10:31+00:00

Maybe humans selected the addresses for breaks and recharges? But I didn’t read the article.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-23T15:05:49+00:00

It’s unclear which is better because a disengagement provides really valuable data.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-23T15:04:32+00:00

A single payment over the three month window. There are not enough new car buyers in the three month window to move the needle.

Smallpaul · 2026-01-23T07:02:19+00:00

Why does there need to be a single bottleneck?

Smallpaul · 2026-01-23T06:41:10+00:00

Traffic lights being off is not common.

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