Recruiting ad under Biden vs Recruiting ad under Trump.
In case you were wondering why military recruitment plummeted during the Biden admin and is skyrocketing under Trump. pic.twitter.com/DM0yP5JqEn
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 27, 2025
Author: Blazingcatfur
Trumpian Geoeconomics
Economic strength can translate into geopolitical advantage.
President Donald Trump is approaching world politics with geoeconomic means for a geopolitical purpose. His reinvigoration of the Monroe Doctrine in the Western Hemisphere, military pivot to the Indo-Pacific, and rapprochement with Russia in Europe is the geographic part. His tariffs, encouragement of foreign investment in the United States, promotion of domestic energy production unhampered by climate regulations, and domestic cuts in government programs is the economic part. Back in 1990, the strategic thinker Edward Luttwak wrote that the world was moving from geopolitics to geoeconomics. But, as Luttwak certainly knew, economics has always been an important component of geopolitics. Trump the businessman understands that.
China understands it, too. Its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is geoeconomics on steroids, extending China’s economic influence throughout Europe, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere. The BRI uses economic power to advance China’s geopolitical interests. Trump is merely doing the same thing with his America First policies.
Tragic Cuba a dark lesson of the failure of Communism: ‘This is hell’
Cuba just endured a nationwide blackout of the electric grid, lasting for days — the third such disaster in six months. The population has succumbed to despair.
“There are no words to describe this,” a young Cuban YouTuber exclaimed. “This is hell.”
Yet the blackout scarcely made the news. Journalists and intellectuals have fallen out of love with Cuba, so nobody is asking the obvious question: How can any government allow such a humanitarian horror to continue?
Canada’s future.
Ontario expects U.S. to lessen impact of auto tariffs on Canada, following Lutnick phone call: source
Ontario expects the U.S. administration to significantly ease the impact of auto tariffs on Canada, following a phone call from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday, according to a source.
Mr. Lutnick called Mr. Ford on Wednesday evening, according to a senior Ontario government source, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced auto tariffs during a news conference. The Globe and Mail is not identifying the source as they are not authorized to speak publicly about internal discussions.
Sounds a bit like Good Cop Bad Cop.
I suspect that many of the same companies that manufacture here now will be forced to relocate to the States or shut down.
The Canadian market it is said is not large enough to sustain a domestic auto industry.
The EV Fantasy has crashed and burned so what’s next? Unending bailouts?
This will help.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he wants to “inflict as much pain as possible” on the American people pic.twitter.com/rKZTj3Xpwe
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 27, 2025
There’s No Such Thing as a “Safer Supply” of Drugs
Sweden, the U.K., and Canada all experimented with providing opioids to addicts. The results were disastrous.
Last August, Denver’s city council passed a proclamation endorsing radical “harm reduction” strategies to address the drug crisis. Among these was “safer supply,” the idea that the government should give drug users their drug of choice, for free. Safer supply is a popular idea among drug-reform activists. But other countries have already tested this experiment and seen disastrous results, including more addiction, crime, and overdose deaths. It would be foolish to follow their example.
Cynical opportunists or dutiful Canadians? For Liberals MPs who changed their minds about running again, maybe a bit of both
It’s a hard line to straddle. Are the Liberal MPs who announced they were heading for the exits when the polls were down but now want to contest their seats political opportunists? Or are they answering a call to duty?
On Tuesday, Sean Fraser, the Nova Scotia MP and former minister of housing and immigration, announced he’d changed his mind and would stand for re-election. “I will be the Liberal candidate in Central Nova during this federal election,” he posted on Facebook. “Yesterday, Prime Minister Mark Carney called and asked me to join the team that will be responding to this unprecedented economic threat from the United States. I said yes.”
Tax-Funded NPR Flunks Biology Again: ‘He’s Already Frozen His Eggs’
Publicly funded National Public Radio continues to defy basic biology by muddling the facts of life.
On Tuesday, Kristen Schorsch took the emotional approach to the gender identity topic in “What happens when a Chicago hospital bows to federal pressure on trans care for teens.”
LILLEY: Carney is all in for Canada, just not for paying taxes
Mark Carney says that he’s all in and elbows up for Canada, but it seems the firm Carney used to oversee liked foreign countries better. Not only did Brookfield Asset Management move its headquarters from Toronto to New York when Carney was its chairman, he set up $25 billion worth of Brookfield funds in a Caribbean tax haven.
Confounding Conventional Wisdom, Polls Find Trump Stronger Than Ever
President Trump’s foes are hopeful that White House chaos will rid them of this turbulent president. So far, though, Americans are happier than ever that Mr. Trump’s circus is in town — and many welcome the very disruptions that make Washington insiders queasy.
“The true New Yorker,” John Updike said, “secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” On social media, many MAGA foes are just as convinced that the 77.3 million people who voted for Mr. Trump are playing some electoral practical joke.
Police-reported hate crimes against Jews increased sharply in 2023: Statistics Canada
Police services in Canada recorded a steep rise in hate crimes in 2023, with a significant amount targeting Jews, Statistics Canada reports.
There were 4,777 incidents reported, up 32 per cent from 3,612 incidents in 2022. It was the third steep increase in four years.
Bring Out the DOGE Machine for the ‘Public’ Broadcasters Who Hate Half of America
Were it not for the Trump Administration’s seriousness about trimming government waste, I’d say that the House Oversight hearings on cutting spending for NPR were just another dog and pony show. Yawn. Ho hum. Rep. Jim Jordan issues zingers and gets outrageous answers and we gasp and point, but ultimately nothing gets cut. Big Bird walks away with all his feathers again.
Amid plunging polls, these NDP voters are seriously considering Mark Carney
OTTAWA—It’s the stuff of New Democrats’ nightmares.
Kwun Whess, 27, has voted NDP in nearly every election. Their MP is a New Democrat, in a northern British Columbia riding likely in the crosshairs of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.
But this time around, Mark Carney’s Liberals may get their vote.
Nolte: First Quarter Box Office Is ‘Bad. Really Bad’ with ‘Plenty of Flops’
As last year’s dismal box office became apparent, we were assured and reassured by the so-called experts that this year’s box office would set everything right. Well…
“As of Sunday, movies have generated $1.34 billion in the U.S. and Canada this year, down 7% from the same period in 2024, according to Comscore,” reports the far-left L.A. Times. “March has been particularly weak. The month is expected to end down 50% year over year. Remember, last year‘s first quarter was down significantly from pre-COVID-19 levels, so business is bad. Really bad.”
Kelly McParland: On Brookfield, China, Carney offers only fog
If you’ve been following the federal election to date, try and figure this one out:
Liberal Leader Mark Carney has been slagging off Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre for refusing to seek the official security clearance that would give him access to top secret briefings by the Canadian spy agency, CSIS.
Europe Confronts Reality That Vance’s Hostility Is More Than Just a Show
European leaders had hoped that Vice President JD Vance’s antagonism was a political show to build domestic support. Now, after Vance expressed disdain for Europe in a private text chat about Yemen attack details, officials are coming to terms with a vocal vice president whose antipathy for Europe appears to run deep.
“I just hate bailing Europe out again,” he said regarding planned U.S. strikes against Houthi rebels, in an exchange published by the Atlantic magazine. He told fellow administration officials that the U.S. was “making a mistake” by hitting the Houthis, whose attacks on Red Sea shipping have scrambled global shipping routes.
He noted that only “3 percent of US trade runs through the Suez. 40 percent of European trade does.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth replied to Vance’s comments: “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”