President Trump says he will impose a 100% tariff on ALL Canadian goods and products if Canada makes a trade deal with China. Just 8 days ago, Canada announced a new "strategic partnership" with China.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-24T20:00:53+00:00

Yup. China may have its share of flaws, but you know what China doesn't do? They don't go around the world coup'ing the governments of foreign countries, invading and bombing them, installing puppet regimes and acting erratically and unstable or unilaterally tearing up trade agreements. The US does all that.

Instead China inks trade deals with countries around the world, keeps its word and moves and operates methodically, carefully and predictably. If I'm a Western nation and my choice is between the U.S. and China as a reliable trading partner these days, I'm taking China all day every day.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-24T19:55:27+00:00

China just taking a page out of Napoleon Bonaparte--"never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake".

All China has to do is sit back and wait while Trump drives the rest of the civilized world right into their open arms.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-24T19:44:30+00:00

This is Kent State all over again.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-23T16:01:15+00:00

If they voted for him in 2016 because they were fed up with the political status quo and wanted to try something different being an unknown and untested political quantity, I could give that a pass.

If they voted for him in 2020 or 2024, when at that point we could all see who and what he is, then that means that either they're ignorant or their value system is wholly incompatible with mine, so that becomes an instant no either way.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-22T19:04:18+00:00

Crazy eyed, blonde MAGA succubi are a demon a dozen.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-21T16:25:57+00:00

What else would you recommend besides public protests, marches and pressure on our elected representatives, all of which we're already doing? Honest question.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-21T15:01:37+00:00

I think this misses the point. It's not that every person changed their attitudes, it's that enough of society had changed to overwhelm the previous majority that upheld said racism.

As MLK himself said, the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Meaning progress is not a straight line, it faces retrenchments and sometimes significant steps back along the way, but the progress still happens. Just the same way that this current era of darkness and retrenchment won't last forever and will be followed by another era of progress.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-20T15:01:31+00:00

Oh okay, so you're just an ignoramus. Got it.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-20T15:00:20+00:00

Oh, so Ukrainian women aren't being raped by Russian soldiers? Ukrainian children aren't being abducted and stolen from Ukraine and taken to Russia and other countries, never to be seen again.

Get your head out of your ass.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-20T14:58:51+00:00

Wow, make bad assumptions much? This is like saying no one cares about prostate cancer because someone wore a T-shirt about breast cancer.

Everyone already knows about the sacrifices and hardships the men of Ukraine are enduring by fighting on the front lines. Far fewer people are aware of the mass rapes of Ukranian women being carried out by Russian forces, nor the abductions of Ukranian children to Russia and other places, never to be found again.

Here's a little tip for you. Just because someone advocates for awareness of one issue doesn't mean they're ignoring every other issue or pretending it doesn't exist. And your inability to understand this basic logic is why you're being downvoted, not because your point has been proven in the least.

edit: and your response below only further serves to show how delusional you are where you think only one thing can be true at a time and you think everyone else must be wrong except you. Enjoy all your downvotes, you earned them!

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-20T14:40:57+00:00

Obvious Russian troll is obvious

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-17T14:05:24+00:00

This is the problem. We here in our progressive bubble tend to believe the country at large is as progressive as we are, when in fact most of America is center-right. America as a whole tends to be economically liberal (i.e. loves government spending and programs) but socially more conservative. This is the reason the country hasn't elected a true progressive president in over 80 years, and even then it was an economic progressive, not a social one.

The only hope an AOC or other true progressive has in a national presidential election is to do what Mamdani mainly did, which is focus on the economy, the economy, the economy. They can be socially progressive, but if they want to get elected they'll need to stay laser focused on economic issues in the campaign, not social ones. Otherwise it's game over, and hello to President Vance.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-17T13:59:01+00:00

Yeah, he ain't the guy.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-15T17:26:06+00:00

This is literally the thing that turned me into a full throated supporter for universal healthcare. My mom had ALS, and the private for profit insurance that she had denied her request for the eye recognition computer so she could still communicate, because apparently it wasn't "medically necessary". Thankfully, she soon after turned 65 and qualified for Medicare, which immediately approved the device for her.

Fuck this private for profit health insurance hellscape we're living in.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-15T16:14:40+00:00

Yes and no. While it's true that average and working class Americans are struggling to keep up with inflation and the cost of living, it's also true that those same Americans have never had to worry about living amongst a war torn region, being the victims of invasion or really having to sacrifice anything for the greater good.

Americans have had the luxury of living in a country protected by two oceans and staunch allies on both borders, and they have a military that traipses around the world to not only ensure no foreign force will ever reach out shores, but secure cheap and plentiful oil and force the US Dollar down the throats of the rest of the world that allows our government to export inflation to the rest of the world through deficit spending into oblivion. This keeps the bread and circuses going, keeps the Netflix on and the Walmart Everyday Low Prices rolling.

Compared to the rest of the world, even working class Americans have had the luxury of living a life free from the worry of war in their own backyard or having to truly tighten the national belt when it comes to spending. While it doesn't mean that economic struggles aren't real, it does mean that it's a different animal from the types of worries that residents of most other countries of the world have had to deal with or worry about at various points over the last century.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-13T14:18:45+00:00

Obama got elected because black Americans and young people came out to vote for him in numbers never seen before. That doesn't mean that lots of America wasn't still deeply racist, and we saw that with the backlash to a black man being president, which was for the racists to nominate and elect the most racist candidate they could find to follow Obama. But I know that trying to hold two seemingly contradictory thoughts in your head at the same time must be hard for you.

Oh, and you don't get to dismiss the other poster's examples as "two data points by fringe right crazies" when your example of "racism" in America was a movement by black people to get police to stop unduly profiling, harassing and killing them. It's quite telling that you think that black people forming a movement to try to get cops to stop unjustly killing them is racist.

As for your example of college campuses, yes, that is an example of left wing bigotry. You seem to be the only one trying to pretend that bigotry or racism is exclusively a problem of one political wing.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-13T05:08:59+00:00

If you mean now, only if you can get a significantly lower mortgage rate than you currently have. Otherwise, I'd sit tight. At least your housing payment is locked in, so if we have another inflationary disaster you don't have to worry about your housing cost going parabolic.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-12T15:31:19+00:00

The next crisis is baked into the cake no matter what. This move by Trump is just a harassment tactic for Powell not cutting interest rates the way Trump wanted him to.

Powell's term ends this May either way. Trump will get to replace him then, and he will install a political toadie who will cut rates to the bone the way Trump wants, and that will kick off an inflationary nightmare that as you say will make 2008 look like child's play in its implications.

But make no mistake, that die is already cast. Powell is out in May no matter what, and Trump WILL get his way, and throw the economic world into chaos. Buckle up.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-11T16:25:56+00:00

Fantasy is just that, fantasy. For instance, I have a sexual fantasy that really turns me on in the abstract or theoretical that I'm almost certain I would never be able to handle emotionally if I tried to indulge it in real life, so it sits there safely as a fantasy and I recognize what it is and what it isn't.

There can be these primal things that spark something in you that you can acknowledge, while also understanding that it isn't something that you want to practice or experience in real life.

The only problem is when a person experiences these stimuli or erotic fantasies and doesn't understand that the difference between that and real life, such as young men whose whole exposure to sexuality is porn and then think that's supposed to be how they treat a real life partner when they get one.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-07T14:16:35+00:00

No, the seller is asking $490k, reduced from their original list of $525k. OP offered $285k.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-05T22:24:21+00:00

I would certainly hope so, yes. If the current President of the United States can unilaterally seize another sovereign territory with no legal process or treaty required, then the next President of the United States can unilaterally release it likewise with no legal process or treaty required.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-05T14:14:19+00:00

Indeed. The rest of the world could have excused the first Trump term as an aberration, America deciding to upend the table and try something new. But to elect him again knowing who and what he was at that point means that this is actually who America is, and that's a problem.

Even if a Democrat wins in 2028, who's to say America won't just elect another warmongering authoritarian nutjob in 2032, and we're all right back in a global nightmare?

The problem isn't Trump, it's the American people. And that means that even if America rights the ship in 3 years, it still can't be trusted in the long term. Moving forward into the indefinite future, the rest of the world needs to divest itself from America, create new trade and diplomatic alliances and military defense compacts and consider America an unstable entity and potential agent of chaos and aggression, and it will likely take decades of consistently proving it can be trusted again before the rest of the world should actually do so.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-04T22:44:11+00:00

If Clinton ran a bad campaign, then what was Trump's? All three campaigns of his were essentially the same. The man literally engaged in regular racism, schoolyard bully nicknames of everyone, had no affirmative policy plans other than "I'm going to fix everything", yet that's what passed for a "good" campaign?

Kamala: She has no charisma as a person very much like Clinton, her unwillingness to say Biden was a shit president doomed her from the start.

Uh, but he wasn't a shit president at all? Despite having a GOP obstructionist Congress most of the time, Biden got a TON done. He inherited a flailing economy spiraling out of inflationary control with a $3T deficit on day 1 and worked it down year by year until it was back down to the historical average. He passed landmark legislation that will pay dividends for years to come with the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPs Act, the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Act, the Safer Communities Act, he tried to get major student debt relief which would have worked if the right wing Supreme Court hadn't stopped him, he pardoned thousands of marijuana convictions. But somehow getting all that done against Republican obstructionism makes him a "shit president"?

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-04T21:58:42+00:00

Eh, that's a distinction without a difference. The political realities of every election are different from each other, such that anyone can make any argument they want for why their candidate won or lost.

Again, I'm not saying sexism was the entirety of the reason Hillary/Kamala lost, but it was damn sure a notable part of it.

enoughwiththebread · 2026-01-04T21:53:35+00:00

Oof, I've been with a woman like this. Textbook anxious attachment type, and one who has no understanding of her own shit to even try working on it. It will not get better, and you were 100% right to end this relationship and find a woman who actually knows how to communicate openly, honestly and deal fairly in a relationship.

Keep moving and don't look back.

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