He's Just Not Into You

The video reminds me of Canada, and I am not anti-Canadian, OUR country is Great, but the knuckleheads…I swear. They think very highly of themselves. The politicos do. The knuckleheads.

Anyhow, this interrupted my train of thought: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-weighs-cutting-mexico-out-of-trade-pact-as-trump-taps-pro/. First, respect to Mexico, but my Dad’s job was affected by the Three Amigos’ deal—the nomenclature used about NAFTA/CUSMA in the 80s, so, it is infuriating to see Canada welch on the deal for tax breaks? In all honesty, what purpose does it serve to exclude Mexico from it? The STATES rather than China? Not capitalist thinking, there, but oligopolic? That a word?

The bunch at the top looking out for themselves. Not us. Buoyed by the elected knuckleheads? Supported? Sorry, for being so annoyed.

Kicking Mexico out of NAFTA/CUSMA is not good.

My view is it is better to deal with People directly than behind their backs. And, I am not saying Mexico wouldn’t do the same to Canada—they have knuckleheads, too, but, to be known as a dishonourable sort is far worse than as a greedy son of a….

It’s not the way to operate a business, I’m telling you. Deals are honoured. Canadian knuckleheads are so wrong. Hard for a Marxist to explain.

Maybe it started under PM Harper? Canada has been isolated since him…

In 2003, PM Chretien refused to let Canada participate in the Iraq war. The cons were unhappy, but PM Chretien was right, it was an illegal war. More importantly, in my view, Canada didn’t waste Canadian lives for oil.

We didn’t kill anybody internationally. And, were respected internationally. Notice, OUR current isolation as People are killed and we do nothing?

Under PM Harper, who tended to support American (neo-con) ideas, and, since, OUR country has become increasingly belligerent. OUR version of the neo-con bunch having influence? The knuckleheads? Stand-offishly rude, arrogantly polite?

And, presumptuously TAKING money!

Since PM Harper’s election, for example, there has been an agenda advocating oil. To the detriment of everything else, I suggest, or it seems to me.

Constant rhetoric about pipelines. PM Harper wanted pipelines, lots of pipelines. He advocated building them, getting oil out through them, as early as 2005? 2006? However, even The Fraser Institute was saying THEN, oil PRODUCING superpower is not what one wants to be.

Supplying a non-existent market is the issue. Produce oil, fine, who wants to buy it?

But, more particularly, who wants to profit from pipeline construction?

Even the People saying Pierre Pollivere is better than PM Trudeau for dealings with President elect Trump: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-trumps-team-wants-trudeau-out-in-favour-of-the-populist-poilievre/ can’t change the fact oil from Canada, actually sold to the Americans, is sold at a DISCOUNT. Of course, under Mr. Trump, Americans would buy more of it, who wouldn’t since it’s cheap?

The propaganda revolves around Americans buying our oil rather than anyone note, bought at reduced prices? And, we have an intelligentsia agreeing?

WE, taxpayers, PAY for the pipelines, and get stuck with them when it becomes apparent they are not worth the while. But, the elite and knucklehead co, make money from the deals, the shares, the commissions, all the stuff that doesn’t actually involve oil production.

Mr. Trump is known for making deals, he’s a transactional sort of person. I don’t think many People, here, get that. The knuckleheads see OUR benefit and are blind, and I do mean literally, to the profits of mutually beneficial deals? It’s hard for me to explain what is so obvious to me.

I sell for the best price, you buy for the best price, a deal is made when we are both satisfied. Canadian intelligentsia and co do not operate that way. They are blindly self-interested?

Hence, another example, anyone notice the silence on Potato issue in the Canadian media, CBC excepted. Anyone know about it? Why we need a state press?

We have a Potato price fixing problem.

CBC on the issue: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/potato-cartel-fries-tater-tots-hash-browns-1.7387960 To quote, should sound familiar: Companies in Canada and the United States are supposed to settle on a price for their products on their own. When they co-ordinate with each other and set an agreed rate, it's called price-fixing — which generally makes the price higher for the consumer, since the main-player companies are agreeing not to compete with lower prices.

Anyone reminded of Bread? Keep the knuckleheads back of mind, Bread price fixing scandal. And, Galen! He was Loblaws CEO at the time and tried to weasel out of responsibility for it

Two of the four companies being investigated for Potato price fixing are Canadian: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/lamb-weston-cavendish-sued-in-potato-cartel-price-fixing-case

Notably, McCain’s CEO, Micheal Mc Cain recently made the news for not liking Mr. Trump’s victory: https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/us-election-dismays-michael-mccain

Really cause Mr. Trump won?

Or, because he sees an unfair, particularly against Americans, deal? Easy way to vilify an arrangement and not blame corporate America? Why not make Canada the bad guy as Canadians are in the habit of price fixing, anyhow?

And, Canada’s way of handling these increasingly controversial deals? Scapegoat Mexico…

Tax breaks and exceptionalism are not ways to negotiate business deals. knuckleheads. But, they seem to be the way our knuckleheads think business functions.

And, these elite don’t pay tax and the knuckleheads support them!?!

Sorry, so, infuriated. And, Marxists get the bad name…No wonder, no one wants to deal with us, we repudiate anyone actually interested in investing in Canada, and I don’t think the Americans, particularly, care to…not that they have any money…