The Trump 2nd Term

[Bob Gillanders]

What lessons will the Democrats learn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xnj...el=RobertReich

[Dilip Panjwani]

What lessons will the Democrats learn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xnj...el=RobertReich

Robert Reich correctly identifies what is wrong with the system, but his so-called 'solutions' cannot deliver. Starting government run businesses is like starting businesses destined to lose money and fail, and robbing the hard and smart working just stops people from putting in hard and smart work, and opt for corrupt collusion with politicians, instead...

[Vlad Drkulec]

Robert Reich correctly identifies what is wrong with the system, but his so-called 'solutions' cannot deliver. Starting government run businesses is like starting businesses destined to lose money and fail, and robbing the hard and smart working just stops people from putting in hard and smart work, and opt for corrupt collusion with politicians, instead...

I hope the democrats listen to him. That should banish them to the wilderness for at least twelve to sixteen years.

[Vlad Drkulec]

What lessons will the Democrats learn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xnj...el=RobertReich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF7s381xRtA

I like this one better.

[Bob Gillanders]

Trump made a lot of promises during the election campaign.

I would like to focus on economic issues.

Promises made to his working class MAGA base included: bringing back manufacturing jobs, fighting inflation, a better health care system, and lower interest rates on credit cards.

Promises made to his new billionaire friends included: extending and further tax cuts, more drilling “drill baby drill”, abolishing the EPA, major cuts to regulations and federal spending.

Recent events have brought to centre stage problems with private health insurance. Profits are prioritized over health care resulting in preventable death, suffering, and economic ruin for those without the means to fight the system.

In my opinion the best solution is to adopt a universal single payer affordable government run health care system like we have in Canada and many other rich countries.

Trump has crushed the Republican party, defeated the Democrats, won the House and Senate, a majority on the Supreme Court, a loyal MAGA base, and immunity from prosecution for official acts. In just over a month Trump will basically be a King.

I have one question. Will King Donald prioritize his promises to the MAGA base or to his new billionaire friends?

[Sid Belzberg]

Trump made a lot of promises during the election campaign.

I would like to focus on economic issues.

Promises made to his working class MAGA base included: bringing back manufacturing jobs, fighting inflation, a better health care system, and lower interest rates on credit cards.

Promises made to his new billionaire friends included: extending and further tax cuts, more drilling “drill baby drill”, abolishing the EPA, major cuts to regulations and federal spending.

Recent events have brought to centre stage problems with private health insurance. Profits are prioritized over health care resulting in preventable death, suffering, and economic ruin for those without the means to fight the system.

In my opinion the best solution is to adopt a universal single payer affordable government run health care system like we have in Canada and many other rich countries.

Trump has crushed the Republican party, defeated the Democrats, won the House and Senate, a majority on the Supreme Court, a loyal MAGA base, and immunity from prosecution for official acts. In just over a month Trump will basically be a King.

I have one question. Will King Donald prioritize his promises to the MAGA base or to his new billionaire friends?

Recent events have brought to centre stage problems with private health insurance. Profits are prioritized over health care resulting in preventable death, suffering, and economic ruin for those without the means to fight the system.
In my opinion the best solution is to adopt a universal single payer affordable government run health care system like we have in Canada and many other rich countries.

Bob, the conversation about healthcare reform must go deeper than the public vs. private debate. The problem is not who administers care, but the deeply corrupted system that suppresses affordable, life-saving solutions while prioritizing corporate profits.

In 2020, a close relative was diagnosed with late-stage multiple myeloma. His prognosis was grim—months to live. Faced with the choice between grueling chemotherapy or dying in peace, he chose the latter. But I refused to accept this. Drawing on my background in Molecular Biology and decades of scientific research, I turned to repurposed drugs and metabolic approaches that mainstream medicine had ignored.

We combined Ivermectin, Fenbendazole, sugar restriction, and Allulose (a rare sugar substitute cancer cells can’t metabolize). In just seven months, he achieved complete remission. His oncologist was stunned, but the results were undeniable.

I presented this success story, backed by research and reproducible evidence, to a forum of doctors and scientists. Many of them, seeing the potential to save lives, adopted these protocols. Since then, thousands of late-stage cancer patients—individuals given no hope, with prognoses of weeks or months—have achieved full remission. These results are no fluke. They are consistent, reproducible, and lifesaving.

https://isom.ca/article/targeting-th...ular-protocol/
https://www.newstarget.com/2023-06-3...at-cancer.html


Here’s the sad truth: millions will die if the status quo in cancer therapies continues. The contaminated COVID-19 vaccines, containing the SV40 promoter that integrates into the human genome, have triggered an explosion of turbo cancers—fast-growing, aggressive malignancies in people who were previously healthy. Children are being diagnosed with cancers that doctors with decades of experience have never seen at such rates. This is a global catastrophe, and it will only worsen unless we act.

We must reject the expensive, ineffective therapies dictated by a system that cares more about shareholder profits than human lives. The solutions exist: therapies that are affordable, accessible, and exponentially more effective with ZERO side effects. Repurposed drugs like Ivermectin and Fenbendazole, when combined with metabolic approaches like sugar restriction, have the power to save millions. The evidence is overwhelming, but it has been ruthlessly suppressed by the medical-political complex.

Healthcare cannot be fixed by simply shifting who pays the bills. It will only be fixed when we confront the corruption that has allowed millions to die needlessly while affordable cures are buried. It is not too late, but the clock is ticking. Lives depend on this. Millions of them.

[Dilip Panjwani]

Sid has raised some important issues regarding Big Pharma. One needs to realize that most vital research leading to useful drugs occurs in Universities, Big Pharma then pays a pittance to 'buy' this research and then patents it, making incredible profits out of these patents. Patents also lead to dishonest marketing. This makes no ethical or business sense at all. The society (government using tax dollars) needs to reward those who do all the valuable research and ban patents on them. Only then will the drug prices become reasonable.

The interaction between the doctor and the patient is pivotal to the health of the patient, and has to be guided by the doctor's knowledge, wisdom, empathy and respect for the patient; this can happen better in a 'private' set-up than in a 'public' system, because in the latter, factors other than the highlighted four often ruin the sacred doctor-patient relationship... Sid has referred to some aspects of this ruining in some of his posts on chesstalk.

[Bob Armstrong]

Americas - USA

Republican Party Government

Policies

9 Initiatives for Day 1 of the new Republican Government

1. Mass deportation of undocumented immigrants - Are all terrorists and criminals? Do some have circumstances that make a humanitarian application for temporary residence legitimate?

2. Sweeping tariffs - numbers of economists have warned they could have drastic and harmful effects on the U.S. economy.

3. Pardons - defendants charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Should they not go to trial first and be convicted? If already convicted, does the situation of the conviction not matter? What about democracy? What about rule of law (Vs Right of Kings)?

4. Foreign policy

Ending the war in Ukraine - with Russia keeping all the Ukraine territory it has stolen??

5. Climate Change

a. Cancel the electric vehicle 'mandate' - are we to wean ourselves off the suicidal fossil fuels ever?

b. Increase oil drilling in the United States - just what the climate needs!!

7. An America 1st Economy

Auto industry - to be “fueled by American energy,” “sourced by American suppliers” and built by American laborers.

Works in the "short" run; but fails in the long-run when the American market is saturated, and USA needs foreign markets to continue (Which have just been shafted for years by USA tariffs???)

8. Human Rights

Transgender rights

a. Military & Women's Sports - Limit participation by transgender women.

This is a complicated area - I wouldn't think this headache is needed on Day !???

b. Gender Identity - resources and guidance are currently provided to ensure accessibility and information about the "gender-affirming care" options, including hormone therapy.

The Republican government will revoke this program.

NBC News - 25/1/16

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...x-newtab-en-us

9. Social Media

Chinese TikTok, owned by Chinese ByteDance - recently SCOTUS upheld the current Democratic Party ban on TikTok, if not sold by ByteDance.....the issue is one of national security.

Republicans will stop this federal ban.

The New York Times - Breaking News Newsletter - 25/1/19

https://messaging-custom-newsletters...d396a4debfd6ce




25/1/19 Helms Deep USA Update

Bob A

[Bob Armstrong]

Americas - USA

Citizenship

What are the rules??

Birthright Citizenship?

"A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional."

Several Democratic-led states are seeking a temporary restraining order as they argue that Trump's action violates the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to all children born on US soil "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

The Trump administration has vowed to fight the decision, arguing that that clause "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" allows the president to exclude the children of undocumented immigrants and even children whose parents are lawfully present but lack permanent legal status."

CNN - 5 Things am Newsletter - 25/1/24

https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/mes...=1737718611104



25/1/27 Helms Deep USA Update

Bob A

[Bob Gillanders]

Americas - USA

Citizenship

"A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional."

Good morning Bob A.

Donnie sure was busy his first week back in the oval office. No way whatsoever to cover everything, and I see you picked birthright citizenship to comment. A bedrock constitutional guarantee, but apparently not so much in MAGA world.

One of his royal decrees was to reverse Biden's initiative to lower prescription drug prices. The initiative was too little too late, but at least it did lower insulin prices for some. So why would Donnie scrap that? Is he going to replace it with something better, or just out of spite, or a request from one his new billionaire friends?

[Vlad Drkulec]

Good morning Bob A.

Donnie sure was busy his first week back in the oval office. No way whatsoever to cover everything, and I see you picked birthright citizenship to comment. A bedrock constitutional guarantee, but apparently not so much in MAGA world.

One of his royal decrees was to reverse Biden's initiative to lower prescription drug prices. The initiative was too little too late, but at least it did lower insulin prices for some. So why would Donnie scrap that? Is he going to replace it with something better, or just out of spite, or a request from one his new billionaire friends?

Fake news. Trump did not rescind the insulin price cut. Trump was actually the person who first introduced the idea of $35 insulin. The following leftie somewhat anti-Trump sites admit that.

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/i...ts-2025-01-28/

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/artic...-prices-false/

It does not help when the media and Democratic powerless brokers media complex sets its hair on fire and lies like that and some gullible people believe them.

Trump has certain issues from the point of view of Canadians that really need to get out of his cross-hairs but these are not them. You lose credibility when you repeat media lies.

Rachel Maddow had to start working again and take a pay cut.
Jim Acosta was given the bums rush by CNN.
They follow Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo and other high profile departures.
Many more will be following suit as lying about Trump has consequences for mainstream media, in loss of credibility and loss of viewership and influence on the public. Lets not even get started in the lawsuits.

[Bob Armstrong]

Trump's Tariffs

Canada

Effective Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025.



Helms Deep Canadian 25/2/1 Update

Bob A

[Dilip Panjwani]

Unwanted governmental meddling into citizens' affairs, which is what tariffs are, is bad. It is very anti-Libertarian. Trudeau did the right thing by not responding to a big wrong by committing another big wrong: he has put tariffs on only about 5% of imports from US starting this Tuesday (with a plan to put similar tariffs on about another 25% of imports 3 weeks later).

[Sid Belzberg]

Unwanted governmental meddling into citizens' affairs, which is what tariffs are, is bad. It is very anti-Libertarian. Trudeau did the right thing by not responding to a big wrong by committing another big wrong: he has put tariffs on only about 5% of imports from US starting this Tuesday (with a plan to put similar tariffs on about another 25% of imports 3 weeks later).

Interesting post by Canada PPC leader Maxime Bernier


Maxime Bernier

@MaximeBernier




It’s important to understand that the 25% tariffs announced by President Trump today are NOT imposed on Canada — they will be paid by American consumers and businesses who buy goods imported from Canada. Tariffs are a tax, and Americans who will have to pay more or go without our products will be the first to suffer. Of course, Canadian exporters of these goods will as a consequence lose clients, contracts and sales, and will be forced to cut down on production and lay off workers. Or they will lower their prices to keep market shares and will see their profits diminish. Because 75% of our exports go south of the border, our economy will for sure be very negatively impacted by this. The stupidest thing our government can do however to deal with this crisis is to impose the same kind of tariffs “dollar for dollar” against US imports. The US economy is ten times bigger than ours, much less reliant on trade than ours, and much less dependent on our market than we are on theirs. Not only would retaliatory tariffs have much less impact on American exporters, they would immediately impoverish Canadian consumers forced to pay more for imported goods, as well as destabilize Canadian businesses that need inputs from the US in their production processes. It would more than double the harm of the US tariffs to our economy. Trade wars are bad for everyone, but they are much worse for a small country with fewer options. We simply cannot win a trade war with the US. It’s very unlikely that Trump will back down. All we will do is provoke a massive economic crisis in Canada, until we are forced to capitulate. Another self-destructive thing to do would be to set up giant “pandemic-level” bailout plans to support everyone affected by this trade war. This will simply bankrupt our governments even more than they already are and make us even weaker. So what should we do? 1. Double down on efforts to control our border, crack down on fentanyl dealers, deport all illegals, and impose a complete moratorium on immigration, to answer Trump’s immediate concerns about Canada. 2. Tell the US administration that we are ready to renegotiate North American free trade and put dairy supply management and other contentious issues on the table. 3. Wait and see to what extent Trump is willing to keep tariffs in place despite the harm it does to the US economy. Despite his pretenses that Americans don’t need our stuff, the reality is that on the contrary they have few other options for crucial resources like oil, lumber, uranium and other minerals, etc. He will stop acting like a bully when he sees that he can get more results by sitting down and negotiating. 3. To reduce our dependence on the US market, immediately implement an ambitious plan to tear down interprovincial trade barriers and help our impacted exporting industries find alternative markets in other countries. 4. Immediately implement a series of bold reforms to make our economy more productive, including: reduce corporate and personal taxes, abolish the capital gains tax, abolish all corporate subsidies, get rid of excessive regulation, remove impediments to the exploitation and export of natural resources, drastically cut government spending, mandate the Bank of Canada to stop printing money and start accumulating a gold reserve to prepare for the global monetary reset (which is likely part of Trump’s plan). In short, instead of adopting a suicidal strategy to confront Trump, we must do what we should have done a long time ago to strengthen our economy and our bargaining position. The transition will be rough, but not as much as complete bankruptcy and disintegration.

[Bob Gillanders]

Sid, I have never been very impressed with Maxime Bernier. I find his position against Trump tariffs a little too soft.
I much prefer NDP Charlie Angus and the average Canadian.

Trump has the support on a minority of Americans, and his support is eroding fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_X4...ccupyDemocrats

Join the boycott against American products.