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Canada's oil windfall may yet wipe out its losses from tariffs
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- ANALYSIS | Canada's windfall from high oil prices could offset losses from tariffs | CBC News
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- Sep 13 2026
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- 1665 words
And if you can't trust Trump, the moron who got into this war for reasons, then who can you trust?
I guess it's good for some parts of Canada? I don't love us pumping more of our dirty oil out or this propping up the traitor Premier in Alberta...
Only Trump could run on a reform platform when he is the incumbent.
What do you mean? That's the conservative manifesto in every damned country. Blame the left (even if they were last in power over a decade before), claim that they'll change things after the next election, and then utterly refuse to try when they get in again.
Tried and true. Works even outside of the US.
The amount of people complaining about leftist policies here in the Netherlands is staggering. Especially when the last explicitly left cabinet was in 1977.
There were other left parties in the ruling cabinet after but always with a right or center right party next to them.
Still, everything bad with the country is supposedly because of leftists..
I’m not too familiar with US politics. How significant is this election? Isn’t the president’s term 4 years long?
The republican party is wholly owned by trump at this point. He and his super PACs have enormous amounts of money to support or tear down other republicans. So every republican candidate is a surrogate for him, and if they get elected it means people still like trump and want to enable him as much as possible.
If he doesn't maintain the house and senate (and it's very very close if you are just looking at the seats), then theoretically it becomes more difficult to do the bad stuff. Now, that's theoretical, because nothing about 'norms' seems to apply to him and maybe he'll just have enough democratic politicians arrested before they can take their seats.
That would be unprecedented and cause a constitutional crisis.
Oh no, you mean he’d be breaking the law? Trump? He would do something unprecedented?
God forbid he violate the Constitution and flip what it says on its head.
He can't do it himself. The question is, who would he order to make the arrests and would they actually go along with it?
I feel like he’s been building a whole shadow police force with loose morals and high allegiance to himself for a while now. I’m having more trouble imagining ICE resisting or refusing to cooperate if we ever get to the point of Trump calling for politicians’ arrest. But maybe I’m too pessimistic and actually people are more likely to be sensible about not going that far.
He very nearly invalidated the 2020 election results by inciting a crowdfunded insurrection. I think he has even more support now. He wouldn’t need police he would just get his followers to disrupt any voting thats not in his favor.
There are approximately 100,000 voting locations in the US, so it might be a big job.
He attempted to disrupt vote by mail, but the Supreme Court ruled against it..
no I mean like, get a massive crowd of people to go and disrupt an actual Senate vote
I wonder how the Capitol Police changed since the riot?
Dunno seems like they would have made better protocols to keep themselves out of danger since then, so they could just sit the next one out for their own safety or it could go the other way. I hope it works out for us I just can see how it might not.
I would have thought a triple threat of economic war on biggest ally causing ripples across NATO, assassination of foreign president followed by propping up family to plunder, and a going nowhere and domestically economically disastrous war in the middle east without Congress approval would have triggered a constitutional crisis. At this point I'm convinced every check and balance in America is broken, and him arresting a few people on trumped up charges is extremely small potatoes in comparison. Charges don't even have to stick: it's just swift boat veterans and Hilary emails all over again.
I have completely lost faith in the American system: they're not going to fix anything we are talking about making things slightly less bad slower only. Anything short of him dying from ill health isn't enough of a trigger.
Polls are looking good for Democrats. Of course, they could be wrong, but I wouldn't lose hope yet.
I'm definitely rooting for good outcomes, yeah
Here's a good video about the war and how the election is important.
TLDW: Canada is going to force the election to be a referendum.
In early 2025, when Mark Carney was running for Canadian prime minister, with the Liberals in scandal + public ire + leadership freefall, many points behind the Conservatives, Carney said Canada has what it takes to become a major world power. I thought it was ridiculous hogwash at the time: it's optimistic to view ourselves as middle of the pack when all we seem to do is sell raw resources then buy finished goods back more expensive.
Instead of a buoy bobbing along the wake of giant passing ships, somehow we are on the way to becoming a unifying voice of reason, the sane trustworthy middle agent for all trade between Asia and Europe, and actually becoming an energy superpower.
I'm still very suspicious of Carney on how much he really cares about our environment, on our indigenous first Nations rights, and if his goal is to just privatize everything + austerity for the masses. But internationally, I have to hand it to him: we sure didn't blow up the middle east but Carney primed us ready to capitalize on the collapse.
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