>>22441622 (You) Chamath Palihapitiya: Zuckerberg, Rogan, Musk, and the Incoming “Golden Age” Under TrumpPN
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Chamath and Tucket were not
defending Zuck. I think the title was not accurate
>>22441732, >>22441500 Trump on Columbia refusing deportee flights; Scavino Homeland Security: "We're on it, @POTUS."PN
Remember when Trump in 2016 started releasing America's policies, actions, who he fired, and WW leaders thought it so unbecoming? Now they do it. But it also saves time and letters or phone calls.
The innovator Trump that doesn't want to waste time.
Turns out Orange Man Bad, is brilliant
Vice President JD Vance's first interview | Face the Nation(biocth)
In his first interview since taking office, Vice President JD Vance sits down the Face the Nation's Margaret Brennan to discuss the Trump Administration's agenda.
19:44
https://youtu.be/rPso1-N9O9s
Man Vance is a fast thinker, he almost knows what she's going to say, and answers professionally.
She's throwing a lot of shit at him and is not disrlturbed
Celeb real estate agent calls on Newsom to 'cut the red tape'
Former 'Million Dollar Listing' star and Los Angeles real estate agent Josh Altman provides an update on wildfire recovery and rebuilding efforts, and previews President Donald Trump's visit to disaster sites. #
4:17
https://youtu.be/NoIUAjJYgXk
‘Hit Him Back Twice as Hard’: Canada’s No. 1 Populist Has a Risky Trump Strategy
Alexander Burns January 25, 2025
TORONTO — Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, plans to rain economic punishment on Americans if President Donald Trump targets Canada in a trade war.
Ford has threatened to cut power transmission to U.S. homes and businesses and banish U.S. liquor from Ontario shelves. Wearing a MAGA-like hat reading “Canada Is Not For Sale,” Ford has pledged to target red states with dollar-for-dollar retaliation. In an interview Wednesday, he described himself matter-of-factly as a brawler with a reflex for combat.
“I’m a street fighter in politics,” Ford told me. “If someone throws a punch at me, I’m going to hit him back twice as hard.”
Also, Ford is pretty sure that he and Trump would get along.
“Absolutely,” he said. “One. Hundred. Percent.”
It is not difficult to imagine Ford, a 60-year-old smiling bulldozer of a man, enjoying the buffet at Mar-a-Lago or taking in a UFC match at Trump’s side. A right-of-center businessman-politician with a loyal working-class base, Ford has drawn casual comparisons with Trump for years. In our conversation, Ford cast his own blue-collar, anti-elite coalition as a precursor to Trump’s: “We have something up here called Ford Nation — well before Trump Nation.”
In another life, or maybe a few weeks from now, they might be friends and allies.
And that is what makes Ford important in this moment. For all his apparent kinship with Trump, he is pursuing not appeasement but confrontation. It is a revealing choice and the world should take note.
Standing apart from the servile menagerie of world leaders, billionaires and executives who are seeking Trump’s favor through flattery, Ford is making his own bet — that the American president will respect grit, bluntness and macho theatrics more than pleading gestures of submission.
It is a risky strategy, seemingly anchored in Ford’s confidence that he understands Trump on a deeper level than his colleagues in the governing class. If Ford is wrong in his assessment of Trump, his peace-through-strength strategy could inadvertently accelerate a trade war that Ford views as irrational. He is emphatic that he does not want to carry out any of the threats he’s leveled at Washington.
“That’s the last thing I want to do. I want to work with President Trump,” Ford said. He stressed: “There’s no one that loves the U.S. up here in Canada more than I do.”
Ford is, in a way, a one-man illustration of how much politics has changed since Trump’s first term. Eight years ago, the Trump counterweight in Canada was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with his gauzy progressivism, People magazine looks and Davos-compliant worldview. He became, overnight, every American Democrat’s anti-populist boyfriend in Canada.
Trudeau is still prime minister, barely. He is a shrunken figure serving his final weeks in office, cast off by his party as voters rebelled over the cost of living. And now it is a MAGA-conversant Ontario premier who looks like the king in the north.
Ford’s bring-it-on attitude toward Trump is at least partly shtick. If his tactics are grounded in instinct, they are not improvisational. There is nothing uncalculated about the Trump-aligned policy preferences Ford chooses to emphasize (low taxes, higher defense spending) and the progressive-friendly ones he omits from his riff (enthusiasm for electric vehicles.) Ford said he has given a heads-up to Ottawa on his showy warnings to Washington, even on matters like liquor regulation where he can take action on his own.
Woven together with all that has been a more affirmative sales pitch to the Trump administration, conveyed by Ford in a Wall Street Journal essayarguing that an even tighter U.S.-Canada partnership (“Fortress Am-Can”) is the best way to take on China. In effect: North America First, minus Mexico…
(I think Columbia tried that today, KEK. Canada is so messed up)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doug-ford-muscle-flexing-crowd-120000547.html
Maher blames Democrats for Trump’s popularity: He’s ‘cool now’
01/25/25 06:06 PM ET
Comedian Bill Maher said Democrats are at fault for President Trump’s “cool” status following his first full week in office.
“Here’s how bad the Democrats f* up: Trump is cool now,” Maher declared during a Friday episode of Max’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
“He’s not just the most powerful guy in the world and just made himself like the richest, he’s actually kind of [cool] at 78!”
The comedian cited rappers and athletes expressing fondness for the president.
Hip-hop stars Nelly, Rick Ross and Snoop Dogg notably performed at Trump’s inaugural events, as did the Village People.
Democrats have been working to fight against Trump’s popularity with fact-checking and media blitzes, however, strategist James Carville suggested people should just allow the leader to “punch himself out.”
“He just says anything that he wants to say. He’s just going to keep plowing through,” Carville stated in a Friday MSNBC interview.
“And what we have to learn as Democrats, just let him punch himself out.”
Trump signed several controversial executive orders during his first week in office, including those challenging birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.
Democrats pushed back on the recent measures in court and through press conferences vowing to protect local community members.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5106970-maher-blames-democrats-for-trumps-popularity-hes-cool-now/amp/