Jacque’s Journey 🇨🇦

The NYT published a link to critical original reporting on Iran 45 minutes ago. A good, fair story. They have 53m followers. The engagement metrics you display say they got 94 likes and 33 retweets out of that. Is that accurate? And if so, shouldn't you work on a better algo?

@grok @Heachy_AC @TrendPolCa @grok - Has this strategy worked with Canada?

Trump's "51st state" quips about Canada follow his signature hyperbolic style—exaggerated boasts to spotlight trade imbalances, tariffs, and economic leverage, much like his 2019 Greenland purchase jab. It's absurd on purpose: poking at sovereignty to frame better deals, not literal policy. The royal book notes he deferred to King Charles as head of state, underscoring it's flair over force. He's floated the idea at least 15-20 times publicly since Dec 2024 (speeches, Truth Social, meetings with Trudeau/Carney), per reports from CBC, NYT, Time, and others—recurring through 2025-26 amid tariff talks.

Trump weighed annexing parts of Canada near the U.S. border but backed off after learning King Charles is Canada’s head of state, a new royal book says, citing the president’s deference to the monarch — CBC News

@grok @Heachy_AC @TrendPolCa @grok - Please explain how Trump’s 51st state comments about Canada are humourous along with the approximate number of times Trump has made comments about annexing Canada or about it becoming the 51st state.

Trump's style mixes bold humor, exaggeration, and deal-making flair—much like his Greenland comments. The royal book frames it as genuine deference to King Charles and Canadian sovereignty under the monarchy, but many read it through partisan lenses: one side as jest, the other as intent. Context matters in both cases.

@jaketapper “America, fuck yeah!” youtu.be/LasrD6SZkZk?si…

Latest message to Iranian leaders from President Trump: @realDonaldTrump/116351998782539414" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…

THIS ⬇️. I’m not sure why I still get shocked at US 🇺🇸 ignorance.

Let me explain something to the MAGA crowd, because clearly someone needs to. They seem to think NATO is cosmic room service. You pick up the phone, say “hello, we’re having a bit of a war here,” and thirty-one countries march to your rescue. A continental Uber for military adventures. That is not how it works. Article 5 is a mutual defense clause. The clue is in the word mutual. And it has been triggered exactly once in NATO’s entire history. After September 11. When America was attacked. Not Europe. America. Every NATO member showed up. They went to Afghanistan. They fought. They bled. They died. In America’s war. On America’s behalf. Now imagine they hadn’t. Over 1,100 allied soldiers died in Afghanistan. British, Canadian, German, Danish, Polish. And yes, even Ukrainian soldiers, who had no NATO obligation whatsoever. Gone. Without them, those are American names on those graves. Sons from Ohio. Fathers from Georgia. Kids from Nebraska who never came home. Then there is the money. NATO allies spent over 100 billion dollars on a war that started on American soil. Without that, Washington pays every cent. On top of the 2 to 3 trillion the war already cost. And without allied bases across Europe and Central Asia, American supply lines collapse entirely. Without British forces in Helmand and Canadians in Kandahar, the Taliban reconstitutes in three years instead of ten. The gaps get filled one way. More American deployments. More American coffins arriving at Dover. Afghanistan was bloody. But NATO took the hit. Without them, every single one of those casualties would have had an American name. Trump called allies like these losers. Suckers. If you are a certain kind of broken person, that probably makes sense to you. But for the rest of us, what those soldiers did has a different name. Honor. The bond between men who have been in the same dirt, under the same fire. Between Brits and Americans, Frenchmen and Norwegians, Canadians and Danes. Not a diplomatic relationship. A blood bond. Brotherhood forged in places most people will never see and cannot imagine. In that culture, you do not mock a fallen ally. You do not sneer at the dead. It is the lowest thing a human being can do. Trump did it to a standing ovation. If you are a MAGA supporter travelling to NATO countries, understand this. There are no friendly pats on the back waiting for you. No one will buy you a beer. The governments who share your worldview sit in Minsk, Moscow and Pyongyang. Brutal dictatorships where journalists disappear, elections are theatre and dissent is a medical condition treated in basements. Not London. Not Paris. Not Rome, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin or Ottawa. You have abandoned the open societies, the free press, the rule of law, the places where people actually want to live. You traded the best of civilization for a very small, very dark room. Frankly, it serves you right.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@RT_com Can you tell your useful idiot to fuck off for me?

TUCKER CARLSON SOFT-LAUNCHING CANADA 51ST STATE?! 'Our most CRITICAL ALLY — IGNORED, HUGE oil reserves, OPPRESSING its own CITIZENS...' 'NOT a SOVEREIGN COUNTRY — DEFINITELY could argue for REGIME CHANGE' 'If anyone needs liberation… IT'S THE CANADIANS!'

@DemosKratosCA Well said sir.

I would posit that if the USA leaves, then what’s left of NATO should add Ukraine to the alliance along with Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and other like minded middle powers. Provide Ukraine what ever it needs. Pull a ‘Russia’ and provide manpower as well - in Ukrainian uniforms like what North Korea did. Then keep arming up to deter future attacks - this is critical. Permanent bases on the eastern flanks - Canadian, Australian, Japanese etc. permanent presence to deter Russia. Like wise in South Korea to deter North Korea as the USA would abandon them as well. Would need to replace the USA nuclear deterrent too. A TON of work and cost, but doable. Just look at Ukraines current output and what we did during ww2.

As a European, I am not afraid that the USA will leave NATO. We already know that they do not have good intentions to Europe and that we, therefore, have to build our defence to be able to fight without the Americans. We are well on our way and it will happen a lot faster if the USA leaves NATO officially. Russia is too weak and small to be a long term threat to Europe. They simple can not match what we can produce. As long as we keep Ukraine from falling, Russia is also not a threat to us in the short term. So if the USA leaves NATO, it is simple for us: Keep Ukraine from falling at all costs and build up European defence and weapon production as fast as humanly possible. We can and we will do that and Europe will be absolutely fine and safe.

@and_rayn @PapasFreshPasta @DominicCardy Mexico has the tightest of gun laws. In fact you can only purchase from 1 store in Mexico City - WAY more restricted than Canada. Yet they’re somehow armed to the teeth - I wonder how that could be???

@PapasFreshPasta @theHunyMeridian @DominicCardy If you voted for this how do you plan on "mounting your insurgency" without a gun? You'll pound your chest to "die for your country" when the true enemy is pulling up disarming you? x.com/i/status/20393…

This is a threat to Canada's survival. Any time anyone adds "Greater" to their country's name, watch out. Greater Germany Serbia Russia Hungary Israel Iran America China Japan... all fascist con jobs.

@CP24 @kinsellawarren 🤣🤣🤣

‘Buy Canadian’ policy flagged by U.S. as trade irritant: report cp24.com/news/money/202…

@EricLDaugh LMFAO - this aged well.

We’d be at war with Iran, directly, if Kamala Harris won in November. Just think about what we avoided. She would’ve already signed off on several strikes, and probably would’ve sent troops. It would have been a nightmare.

Every year, U.S. News ranks the world’s countries by quality of life. Not by GDP. By the actual, lived experience of being a human being inside your borders. Job market. Affordability. Safety. Healthcare. Education. Income equality. Political stability. The results are in: 🇩🇰 Denmark topped the list. A country of six million people, more pigs than citizens, and a deeply held national philosophy that nobody should have too much and nobody should have too little. It works. Demonstrably, measurably, infuriatingly well. The Nordics dominate the top ten like they’ve been doing it for centuries, which is essentially true. 🇸🇪 Sweden at 2 offers parental leave so generous it makes British HR departments weep. 🇳🇴 Norway at 4 sits on a sovereign wealth fund so large it could buy most of Wall Street and still have change left for the fjords. 🇫🇮 Finland at 6 runs the world’s best school system by telling children to play outside instead of memorizing test answers. 🇳🇱 The Netherlands at 9 built a cycling infrastructure so good that the car feels like a lifestyle choice rather than a necessity. 🇨🇭 Switzerland at 3 is simply cheating. Highest median wages in the world. A political system so stable it makes the Vatican look impulsive. Healthcare that functions. Four national languages spoken without anyone declaring a culture war. And the Alps, just sitting there, being magnificent. 🇨🇦 Canada at 5 is what happens when you take North American scale and add functioning public services. 🇦🇺 Australia at 8 adds sunshine and one of the best-funded pension systems on earth. 🇳🇿 New Zealand at 10 adds the kind of landscapes that make grown adults cry on planes, plus a government that has quietly become a global model for actually governing. 🇩🇪 Germany at 7 built the strongest industrial economy in Europe and then wrapped it in a social safety net so comprehensive that losing your job feels more like an inconvenience than a catastrophe. 🇮🇪 Ireland at 15 went from economic basket case to European tech hub in thirty years. 🇯🇵 Japan at 14 has cities where you can leave your wallet on a park bench and come back to find it exactly where you left it, with an apology note from anyone who accidentally touched it. And then there is 🇺🇸 the United States. 22nd. A country with 813 billionaires, highways wide enough to land a small aircraft, and meals so large they arrive at the table like a geographical feature. Behind the US, at 23, sits 🇸🇬 Singapore. Tiny, ruthlessly efficient, with an education system that tops global rankings and a port that moves more cargo than most continents. At 24, 🇵🇱 Poland, which has quietly built one of the most resilient economies in Central Europe after decades of pulling itself up from genuine ruin. And at 25, 🇰🇷 South Korea, which went from war-devastated poverty to semiconductor superpower in a single generation, and still found time to invent some of the best cinema, music and skincare on earth. 🇩🇰 Denmark wins. Again. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

From American Pulse. “Carney has been Canada’s Prime Minister for one year. In that year, he has rearmed his country, rebuilt its alliances, secured its Arctic, reoriented its trade away from the United States, and stood on the world stage at Davos to say — without euphemism, without apology — that the old order is over and America is no longer its anchor” open.substack.com/pub/americanpu…

@CTVNews 🤣🤣🤣

Alcohol, 'Buy Canadian' policy flagged by U.S. as trade irritants: report ctvnews.ca/business/artic…

My Dude - you missed his point entirely. The ‘military on military’ war would be over in hours - days if we’re lucky BUT the goal is not to win this part lol. Once that phase quickly ends, the LONG insurgency starts. Longest undefended border in the world and this fight is taken to all sorts of soft targets in the USA. We take out power stations, refineries, airports, rail and bridges and then wreck havoc in all sorts of locations in the USA (you can’t defend it all). Think of all the dual Canada/USA citizens currently living in America who’d be taking up the cause who are also legal gun owners/pro 2A. The US public has no appetite for a war 1000s of miles away (re: Afghanistan), so how do you think they’d feel when insurgency is brought to their door step? Believe me, we’d make the Taliban look like teddy bears 🧸! If you actually served in the military you’ll have served with the CAF at some point and you’d know their fighting spirit - there’s over 300K veterans that are of fighting age. Even if only a minority of them took up this cause, it would be utter misery for your country and the US public at large.

@DominicCardy Good fantasy bro, but the data & facts say the opposite, our military CRUSHES yours & we always use it. globalmilitary.net/compare/countr…

Canada's first-ever Defence Industrial Strategy is a half-trillion-dollar opportunity — and Winnipeg is ready. Third-largest civilian aerospace cluster in Canada. Standard Aero, Boeing, Magellan all growing. Up to 800 new Air Force members coming to 17 Wing.

Doug Ford: Oh, Christ, I almost drank your water Mark Carney: I didn't touch it Doug Ford: This isn't going to turn me into a Liberal, is it?

"The numbers don’t lie. The United States is 100x more expensive, 10x slower, and offers zero job portability. Canada is faster, cheaper, and gives you freedom to switch employers." amirismail.com/canada-h-1b-al…

Woke Ann Coulter is something to behold