If America loses its purchasing power all it’ll have left is its military. Beyond being the world’s consumption epicenter and selling services, there’s not much else to stand on.

I have a feeling the US won’t be the country that makes the next legitimate AI breakthrough, even with Trump trying to remove all guardrails and onshore hardware production.

I’m guessing trumps spike on support by Latin American folk can be explained by religious zealots like her?

I don’t know thats its too high especially of it was going to be much more than that if not for Trump’s threats, Trudeau’s resignation and Carney’s ascension.

Too close from whose perspective?

The liberals had no business winning this election. All metrics pointed to a conservwtive land slide until Trump got involved and Carney seemingly handled him better than Trudeau.

Carney is going to have to perform above average in his first term otherwise the liberals will be absolutely decimated in 4 years.

This is borrowed time. Even an average performance now will guarantee Poilievre a win in 4 years. The Liberals are going to have to get more done in 4 years than they have in the past 10 to prevent that.

I don’t know if America is the right place to take advice on that at the moment. Whatever plan is being implemented there has clearly failed profoundly.

Unless you’re saying Canada should learn from America’s mistakes but the countries are very different so I doubt the lessons would be meaningful.

Certainly doesn’t bode well. Carney is going to actually have to make a real impact in the next 4 years or the next election will be a landslide for the conservatives. This is borrowed time for the liberals.

I’m totally okay with taking a shot on someone who is actually educated and respected as opposed to a career politician.

Many Western nations are turning to political outsiders out of frustration with the status quo. Conservatives and the far right have more effectively tapped into that underlying desire and capitalized on it.

Here we have an outsider who isn’t a dog whistling regressive populist. That’s a huge win for Canada in my book.

Definitely makes Canada stand out relative to the US, where the choices are bad and apocalyptic bad.

This has been my experience as well and I’d like to highlight your insightful point on how it seemed like both options were still trying to work towards a greater good decades ago.

Modern day conservatism seems entirely based on the ethos that inclusivity has gone too far. Since the world has become (in a very general and oversimplfying sense) more fair and inclusive over time, the ideology now feels inherently regressive.

What happens when a ‘safe third country’ starts adopting extractionary systems left behind by colonial empires that have, in part, held back third world economies for decades? Keep an eye on America to find out!

I’m sure America’s substantial purchasing power will help prevent the rot from spreading within. Right? Right?!

Having a criminal history would likely make him ineligible.

There’s no outright rule against it but several people have been removed from the order for committing crimes.

The embarrassing thing is a lot of that disinformation was shared on social media networks that were created in the US.

Creating the tool that your enemy uses effectively against you is not a good look.

They listen but only if you’re saying what they want to hear.

White people may be detained to. I know one elderly white man who was made to repeat ‘I love the US’ three times before being allowed entry.

He did it and managed to get in unscathed so perhaps this is not the best example. But I imagine they would have detained him if he refused.

Generally any tariff over 50% eats into profit margins sufficiently to end trade altogether.

Any escalation in tariffs above that is essentially just a symbolic dick measuring contest. China is being the adult in this situation by not engaging.

China has a much greater tolerance for pain than the US for a multitude of reasons. China is also in a position to bolster trading relationships with other nations since it has not gone scorched earth like the US.

The US holds disproportionate purchasing power for its size but it’s still has far less than 50% global purchasing power. China and most other countries will find other partners to trade with while the US isolates itself further.

The only reason the US holds 20% of global purchasing power is because of mutually beneficial relationships with other countries. Purchasing power will slowly erode over time if Trump continues on his current path.

The US is really overestimating its leverage here and, being a fairly overmiliatarilized nation, one can only hope it doesn’t turn to violence once things go south.