I know this is a little picky, but can we stop referring to Trump as transactional? It’s a word that lends legitimacy to what is basically extortion. A transaction is an exchange. What Trump does is not a simple exchange because it always, always comes with a threat. Even if the threat isn’t explicitly stated, it is there.
He is not transactional or viewing things as a real estate deal. He is an extortionist who wants control over anything he turns his eye toward.
It’s highly unlikely he was ever a “real estate” dealer. He became a money launderer for Russian oligarchs after he bankrupted his casinos.
Following that, he wasn’t a real estate developer at all. He sold licensing rights to his name.
He may have done then what he does now: pour over pretty renderings of developer plans and comment that it’s like nothing he’s seen before.
The man is not a transactional real estate developer. He’s an extortionist and a parasitic attention seeker.
Totes! You're a 'thinker par excellence'. I saw the Krasnov involvement, too. Ivana was perhaps Trump's trainer in corruption as she followed her father who was pro-Russia. They met in Montreal, CANADA, thus polluting Canada 🇨🇦. The bible calls them Destroyers, often direct spiritual seed of satan.
'satan' HAS NO NAME. Don't call it 'Satan'...this word is only a description.
Drumpf has Always been against US people. And pro-Putin, regardless of spats.
We could say Drumpf is a 'NEGATIVE', a biblical have not.
Yes indeed. Not so much bad policy as the arbitrary use of power, and the creation of a democratic facade, where true democracy no longer exists. I’m suitably worried. And yes, the danger is contagion. Once other provinces see that this works ( and perhaps unfairly, I am mainly worried that once Conservative premiers in other provinces see that this works) Canada is in trouble.
It is frustrating. We are trying, I think, to do what is right. Solar and wind in Alberta, undercut as soon as the right wing UCP got into power. Solar and wind in Ontario, undercut as soon as the right wing Conservatives got into power. You would know the nuances of this infinitely better than me.
Thanks for this. Some days I feel that I live in a fog composed of disinformation and my own lack of knowledge. But you and some others shine a light. Thanks.
We can't 'DO everything'; California, Smith, Pierre Poilievre. As Mark Carney said, we DO what we CAN.
(And understand that NOTHING is set in stone; things happen, Lots of them, wait for it.)
In the meantime, Canada draws a STRICT LINE of demarcation to proudly(!) billboard that Canada 🇨🇦 is different from US: Canada puts out long-term, enforceable rules and guidelines, showing NO FAVORITES. And the WORLD looks, examines and wants to be part of us. They move their companies here, exactly as Mark Carney is doing.
And I think if it's trade, it must just be trade.
If the trading country is doing dark things, those aren't ignored FOR trade, those are asked about ASIDE from trade. Further, the country is warned that this WILL hurt trade; our citizens can refuse their products and then Canada can't continue.
ALBERTANS are too scared to go up against Smith, and are getting a worse and worse deal. Smith cannot rightly invite Trump in. Canada MUST enforce Alberta's boundaries with the indigenous who are very capable.
In California, isn't Gavin Newsom the head? Doesn't Kamala Harris have say? We need their input.
We do an end run avoiding Trump's 'end runs'.
We don't slide around; we don't waffle. We play a hard, fast game and the world signs up. Pierre is left picking up his worn out slogans.
I know this is a little picky, but can we stop referring to Trump as transactional? It’s a word that lends legitimacy to what is basically extortion. A transaction is an exchange. What Trump does is not a simple exchange because it always, always comes with a threat. Even if the threat isn’t explicitly stated, it is there.
He is not transactional or viewing things as a real estate deal. He is an extortionist who wants control over anything he turns his eye toward.
It’s highly unlikely he was ever a “real estate” dealer. He became a money launderer for Russian oligarchs after he bankrupted his casinos.
Following that, he wasn’t a real estate developer at all. He sold licensing rights to his name.
He may have done then what he does now: pour over pretty renderings of developer plans and comment that it’s like nothing he’s seen before.
The man is not a transactional real estate developer. He’s an extortionist and a parasitic attention seeker.
Totes! You're a 'thinker par excellence'. I saw the Krasnov involvement, too. Ivana was perhaps Trump's trainer in corruption as she followed her father who was pro-Russia. They met in Montreal, CANADA, thus polluting Canada 🇨🇦. The bible calls them Destroyers, often direct spiritual seed of satan.
'satan' HAS NO NAME. Don't call it 'Satan'...this word is only a description.
Drumpf has Always been against US people. And pro-Putin, regardless of spats.
We could say Drumpf is a 'NEGATIVE', a biblical have not.
Yes indeed. Not so much bad policy as the arbitrary use of power, and the creation of a democratic facade, where true democracy no longer exists. I’m suitably worried. And yes, the danger is contagion. Once other provinces see that this works ( and perhaps unfairly, I am mainly worried that once Conservative premiers in other provinces see that this works) Canada is in trouble.
It is frustrating. We are trying, I think, to do what is right. Solar and wind in Alberta, undercut as soon as the right wing UCP got into power. Solar and wind in Ontario, undercut as soon as the right wing Conservatives got into power. You would know the nuances of this infinitely better than me.
Thanks for this. Some days I feel that I live in a fog composed of disinformation and my own lack of knowledge. But you and some others shine a light. Thanks.
Well said
Smith has or is ungoverning every thing in this province in her inevitable rush to authoritarianism!
Because an economy built on The Military Industrial Complex won't run on peace talks.
UNGOVERNING = CREEPING FASCISM
We can't 'DO everything'; California, Smith, Pierre Poilievre. As Mark Carney said, we DO what we CAN.
(And understand that NOTHING is set in stone; things happen, Lots of them, wait for it.)
In the meantime, Canada draws a STRICT LINE of demarcation to proudly(!) billboard that Canada 🇨🇦 is different from US: Canada puts out long-term, enforceable rules and guidelines, showing NO FAVORITES. And the WORLD looks, examines and wants to be part of us. They move their companies here, exactly as Mark Carney is doing.
And I think if it's trade, it must just be trade.
If the trading country is doing dark things, those aren't ignored FOR trade, those are asked about ASIDE from trade. Further, the country is warned that this WILL hurt trade; our citizens can refuse their products and then Canada can't continue.
ALBERTANS are too scared to go up against Smith, and are getting a worse and worse deal. Smith cannot rightly invite Trump in. Canada MUST enforce Alberta's boundaries with the indigenous who are very capable.
In California, isn't Gavin Newsom the head? Doesn't Kamala Harris have say? We need their input.
We do an end run avoiding Trump's 'end runs'.
We don't slide around; we don't waffle. We play a hard, fast game and the world signs up. Pierre is left picking up his worn out slogans.
Thank you, Markham. Once again you bring analysis to me/us that clarifies and signals options.