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- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 21
And FU Trump for constantly taking credit for something someone else accomplished or simply making up imaginary 'victories'.
--President Donald Trump on Monday said he is pausing for one month his new 25% tariffs on goods imported from Mexico after that country’s president agreed to immediately send 10,000 soldiers to the U.S. border to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico.--
wow! the Master Negotiator did it — he got Mexico to deploy thousands of troops to the border! three cheers for Donny Dealmaker, right?
wrong, because ten thousand Mexican troops are already at the border — Joe Biden made that deal four years ago. quietly, with no fanfare — and without almost tanking the world’s economy. that’s the difference between a leader and a buffoon.
No. of Recommendations: 1
wrong, because ten thousand Mexican troops are already at the border — Joe Biden made that deal four years ago. quietly, with no fanfare — and without almost tanking the world’s economy. that’s the difference between a leader and a buffoon.
Are we sure that 10000 additional troops weren't promised on top of what is already being done courtesy of Biden? Honest question.
No. of Recommendations: 2
I don't know if this is an additional 10,000 or not. But I'm guessing it is the 10,000 that have been there.
--According to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Mexico will maintain a deployment of about 10,000 troops.--
Donny got taken to the cleaners by Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum, because he does no reading, no prep work, doesn’t care about facts, and imagines he already knows everything about everything. so he had no idea that Mexico agreed to do something they were already doing.
you could have sent the loudmouth know-it-all drunk at the end of the bar to negotiate with Sheinbaum, and he probably would have walked away with a better deal.
this exact same scenario played out just last week, when Colombia neutralized a tariff threat by agreeing to accept deportation flights from America — flights they’d already been accepting for four years under Joe Biden. in fact, Donny ended up on the losing end of that deal, by agreeing to Colombia’s human rights demands.
are you beginning to sense a pattern? well, then you’ll laugh your ass off over what happened next: Canada took one look at Mexico’s masterful hoodwinking of Donny and said yeah, break me off a piece of that.
No. of Recommendations: 7
it was the exact same deal Donny cut with Mexico. Canada agreed to send ten thousand troops to their border.
“Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border,” Mr. Trudeau said in his post without elaboration.
oh by the way, those ten thousand Canadian troops? they’re already at the border — thanks to a deal previously negotiated by Joe Biden.
Donny’s deal also calls for Canada to spend $1.3 billion on border security — money that they’d already agreed to spend, after cutting a deal with you’ll never guess who.
--Federal Govt unveils Canada's Border Security Plan - December 17, 2024--
Dominic LeBlanc, the minister of finance and intergovernmental affairs, holds a news conference on Parliament Hill to outline the federal government’s new $1.3-billion border security plan.
I know it seems like December 2024 happened a thousand years ago, but I’m sure you’ll remember that Joe Biden was still president.
Trudeau also agreed to name a “fentanyl czar,” which is the silliest fucking thing ever — because there is no ‘fentanyl problem’ at the Canadian border. the amount of fentanyl that crosses our northern border is a rounding error away from zero.
you could imagine Trudeau on the phone with Donny, going ‘yeah sure, a fentanyl czar’ while rolling his eyes and miming jerkoff motions with one hand — and then calling out to the next rando to walk past his office door, ‘hey Gordie, you want to be fentanyl czar?’ Tiedrich
No. of Recommendations: 7
WaPo columnist Catherine Rampell:
“Trump is trying to repackage the status quo as a victory. that’s what the leaders of these foreign countries are learning. you don’t actually have to give Trump anything. you just have to let him announce victory on TV.”
