Re: Jain Diet

On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 16:51:13 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-04-05 6:33 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-04-05, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:

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So Hawaii is the happiest state in a country that ranks 23rd in the
list of happiest countries. And that's probably before the retards
elected Trump, so God knows how low the US ranks now, with extra
inflation, recession and redneck rule.

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Some of us also deplore the destruction of decades of alliances.
It's frustrating to be a country that nobody can trust.

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It's going to take a long time to recover the damage done to those
alliances. I realize that a lot of Americans don't like Trump and have
reached out to the rest of us to disassociate themselves from the
vitriol and lies Trump is spewing, but it is an issue involving the
entire country and it will be difficult for most of use not to lump all
Americans in the the vortex of the MAGA mess.
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You like remember the days before free trade. The modern free trade
movement was let by the US under Reagan.  NAFTA was signed 30 years ago
but then it was renegotiated 6 years ago at the insistence of Trump. You
will recall him announcing the best deal ever.
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There were some things he didn't like about it. He doesn't like our
supply management system which works to stabilize supply and prices and
which makes dairy farming reasonably profitable.  Now he is whining
about the tariff structure he had agreed to. He has been less than
honest about the amount of tariffs that have been charged because they
have not paid any. They was a cap in the amount that could be exported
to Canada and there would be tariffs on anything in excess of that. They
have never hit that threshold. Meanwhile, the US subsidizes farmers.
That leads to over supply and they need to find somewhere to dump the
excess.
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Trump is now pulling the plug on the new USMCA. It is another case of
the US reneging in a treaty it negotiated and signed... the Treaty of
Versailles, the Paris climate change agreement, the JCPOA to control
Iran's nuclear program and many more.  You have to wonder about the
value of signing a treaty with the US when they walked away from so many
of them.
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The US still crows about how Europeans would be speaking German if it
weren't for them in WW I & II, but those wars would have been a lot
shorter and seen few dead and less devastation if the US had not waited
years to join their allies.  Bush sure whined when Canada did not join
them in Iraq. Our PM would not help because he didn't believe the crap
about WMDs and as it turned out, there weren't any.
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Two hundred years of being neighbours, trading partners and allies, and
then Trump launches and economic war to destroy us so we will want to
join the US.  When your best friend stabs you in the back you don't ever
forget it.

Most Americans consider Canada and Canadians to be our friends. Our auto
industry is closely tied with Canada's. A lot of people in the US are
driving cars made in Canada - they just don't know it.
Americans that believe that Canadians are a foreign threat are mostly
hypnotized. Some of them even believe that Putin is a cool/smart dude
and Uncle Un ain't all that bad. Hypnotized.