Donald Trump says NAFTA 'destroyed' U.S. at rally near Canadian border
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MEXICO: Prepares Nation for a Massive U.S. deportation of undocumented and Bare the Financial Brunt that Taxation on Remittances may mean to the Mexicans who Receive them.
The Mummy Vs. Trump
Oh my Gosh!
The advent of Donald Trump as U.S. presidential candidate is forcing Enrique Peña Nieto to appeal to long forgotten Mexican politicos to confront the nasty gringo entrepreneur-turned-politician with equally nasty Mexican ones.
Suddenly on Wednesday, once infamous Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) career politician Humberto Roque Villanueva reappeared on the scene to defend the nation in his role as undersecretary of Population, Migration and Religious Matters.
Villanueva has held this position at the Interior Secretariat for over a year, but his tenure has been one of keeping a low profile, leaving secretary Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong to do the talking on all subjects related to Gobernación.
Yet, Roque Villanueva reappeared to publicly announce that Mexico is readying for a potential victory by Trump come the November elections and it is taking actions on two fronts.
One, which is under Villanueva’s duties as Migration undersecretary, is to ready the nation for a potential massive deportation of undocumented workers and bear the financial brunt that the application of taxation to remittances may mean to the finances of Mexicans who receive them.
Also, Villanueva says that President Peña already made abrupt but radical changes at the Mexican Embassy in Washington by removing his buddy and former mentor Miguel Basañez Ebergenyi and replacing him with Carlos Sada Solana, a man who knows the ropes in the consulates.
This is all fine and dandy except for the fact that it was Roque Villanueva who was announcing the new official anti-Trump preventive strategy. Villanueva’s presence indeed has a double-entendre meaning and a warning to U.S. diplomacy of the shape of things to come should there be a Roque versus Donald clash.
Indeed, when Roque Villanueva was appointed to his new post in 2015, the announcement went unnoticed. In fact, he had been out of political sight for nearly 20 years. Many political observers are still trying to find an explanation as to why this political mummy was pulled out of the Pantheon of the Cursed and revived.
In case you’re wondering about who this formerly revived politician is, well, his most infamous stint came on March 17, 1995, when as the head of the PRI at the Chamber of Deputies he shoved a 50 percent increase down the throats of Mexicans on the value added tax on most merchandise.
And the way of celebrating was a mockingly nasty gesture — for years known as the Roque Sign or roqueseñal — in which then Deputy Villanueva told the rest of his peer in Congress, with the obscene sign, we’ve just screwed you.
This gesture, typical of lewd Mexico, is carried out by bending your arms, clenching your fists, and pull backwards several times. It means a male has done sexual intercourse with a female.
The one difference is that the sign was aimed at the non-PRI deputies who voted against the VAT increase.
The citizenry was finally to pay for the broken dishes left behind by the Carlos Salinas de Gortari administration which ended on November 1994 and left the nation bankrupt.
The increase on the VAT was adding insult to injury to an economically battered population and on top, there was Roque Villanueva, on behalf of then President Ernesto Zedillo and the PRI, telling the Mexican people “we’ve screwed you again,” literally.
To many of us who have a good memory, the revival of Roque Villanueva is definitely a sign that Peña Nieto has run out of talented and trustworthy people within the PRI and is resorting to reviving some of the old ones.
Who ever said the old PRI was on the way out? Definitely not Roque Villanueva or, for that matter, President Peña Nieto who disinterred Roque from political oblivion.
One virtue Roque has in this new role is that he is nastier than Donald Trump, and that’s something!
The Mummy Vs. Trump |
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I think Canada better get ready too.. I think our borders could be over run by Mexicans and US Citizens..
Well, that's completely untrue. I suggest you learn what you are talking about before you write anything further.
School OKs Hispanic Students Wearing ‘Dump Trump’ Shirts
by WARNER TODD HUSTON
9 May 2016
Newport Beach, CA
A California high school has agreed to allow Hispanic students to wear their “Dump Trump” t-shirts on campus despite a dress code that seems to prohibit them.
Sean Boulton, the principal of Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, a town south of Los Angeles, agreed to let a group of Hispanic students wear shirts denigrating GOP front runner Donald Trump.
The school’s dress code for the 2015/16 school year puts a ban on clothing with “inappropriate graphics” and clothing with a message that “denigrates others on account of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap or disadvantage.”
Despite those rules, school authorities are now allowing students to wear shirts attacking Trump and his voters.
One of the girls who requested the bending of the rules said her shirt made her “feel equal,” and that wearing the shirt was an expression of her free speech.
“I feel like they’re saying that we can wear the shirt makes me feel equal with them now. That I have the same privileges as they do. I didn’t feel that before,” student Angelina Alvarez told the media.
A district spokesperson said the shirts were allowed because the district allows political speech.
“Regardless of what side you’re on, we do allow students to wear their political attire as long as safety and security of our students is not compromised and that we maintain focus on learning,” spokesperson Annette Franco said.
The school also said it was looking into punishing students who were reportedly unhappy about the shirts and who “bullied” the Hispanic students for their anti-Trump garb.
The school’s decision comes after the Ninth Circuit Court upheld another California school district’s ban on students wearing U.S. Flag T-Shirts on the American/Mexican holiday Cinco De Mayo.
The case arose when a group of American students wanted to wear their U.S. flag shirts while other students draped themselves in Mexico’s national colors. The American-boosting students, though, were told to go home and change their clothes, and that they would not be allowed to wear the U.S. flag-themed garb because it might upset the Mexican students.
The students took the district to court and lost their case and their appeal to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court.
When the decision was handed down, American Freedom Law Center Co-Founder and Senior Counsel Robert Muise said, “It is truly a sad day when government officials are permitted to ban the American flag on a public high school campus for any reason. Here, school officials feared that our clients would offend ‘Mexican’ students if they wore their flag shirts to school on Cinco de Mayo, so they ordered the students to either remove their shirts or leave school in direct violation of their First Amendment rights.”
In contrast, authorities at Newport Harbor High School seem to have ruled that shirts attacking Donald Trump do not contain “triggering” messages but anyone speaking against the shirts may be punished.
Source: School OKs Hispanic Students Wearing 'Dump Trump' Shirts
by WARNER TODD HUSTON
9 May 2016
Newport Beach, CA
A California high school has agreed to allow Hispanic students to wear their “Dump Trump” t-shirts on campus despite a dress code that seems to prohibit them.
Sean Boulton, the principal of Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, a town south of Los Angeles, agreed to let a group of Hispanic students wear shirts denigrating GOP front runner Donald Trump.
The school’s dress code for the 2015/16 school year puts a ban on clothing with “inappropriate graphics” and clothing with a message that “denigrates others on account of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap or disadvantage.”
Despite those rules, school authorities are now allowing students to wear shirts attacking Trump and his voters.
One of the girls who requested the bending of the rules said her shirt made her “feel equal,” and that wearing the shirt was an expression of her free speech.
“I feel like they’re saying that we can wear the shirt makes me feel equal with them now. That I have the same privileges as they do. I didn’t feel that before,” student Angelina Alvarez told the media.
A district spokesperson said the shirts were allowed because the district allows political speech.
“Regardless of what side you’re on, we do allow students to wear their political attire as long as safety and security of our students is not compromised and that we maintain focus on learning,” spokesperson Annette Franco said.
The school also said it was looking into punishing students who were reportedly unhappy about the shirts and who “bullied” the Hispanic students for their anti-Trump garb.
The school’s decision comes after the Ninth Circuit Court upheld another California school district’s ban on students wearing U.S. Flag T-Shirts on the American/Mexican holiday Cinco De Mayo.
The case arose when a group of American students wanted to wear their U.S. flag shirts while other students draped themselves in Mexico’s national colors. The American-boosting students, though, were told to go home and change their clothes, and that they would not be allowed to wear the U.S. flag-themed garb because it might upset the Mexican students.
The students took the district to court and lost their case and their appeal to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court.
When the decision was handed down, American Freedom Law Center Co-Founder and Senior Counsel Robert Muise said, “It is truly a sad day when government officials are permitted to ban the American flag on a public high school campus for any reason. Here, school officials feared that our clients would offend ‘Mexican’ students if they wore their flag shirts to school on Cinco de Mayo, so they ordered the students to either remove their shirts or leave school in direct violation of their First Amendment rights.”
In contrast, authorities at Newport Harbor High School seem to have ruled that shirts attacking Donald Trump do not contain “triggering” messages but anyone speaking against the shirts may be punished.
Source: School OKs Hispanic Students Wearing 'Dump Trump' Shirts
Of course they did , but will they allow crooked HILLARY shirts ?School OKs Hispanic Students Wearing ‘Dump Trump’ Shirts
by WARNER TODD HUSTON
9 May 2016
Newport Beach, CA
A California high school has agreed to allow Hispanic students to wear their “Dump Trump” t-shirts on campus despite a dress code that seems to prohibit them.
Sean Boulton, the principal of Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, a town south of Los Angeles, agreed to let a group of Hispanic students wear shirts denigrating GOP front runner Donald Trump.
The school’s dress code for the 2015/16 school year puts a ban on clothing with “inappropriate graphics” and clothing with a message that “denigrates others on account of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap or disadvantage.”
Despite those rules, school authorities are now allowing students to wear shirts attacking Trump and his voters.
One of the girls who requested the bending of the rules said her shirt made her “feel equal,” and that wearing the shirt was an expression of her free speech.
“I feel like they’re saying that we can wear the shirt makes me feel equal with them now. That I have the same privileges as they do. I didn’t feel that before,” student Angelina Alvarez told the media.
A district spokesperson said the shirts were allowed because the district allows political speech.
“Regardless of what side you’re on, we do allow students to wear their political attire as long as safety and security of our students is not compromised and that we maintain focus on learning,” spokesperson Annette Franco said.
The school also said it was looking into punishing students who were reportedly unhappy about the shirts and who “bullied” the Hispanic students for their anti-Trump garb.
The school’s decision comes after the Ninth Circuit Court upheld another California school district’s ban on students wearing U.S. Flag T-Shirts on the American/Mexican holiday Cinco De Mayo.
The case arose when a group of American students wanted to wear their U.S. flag shirts while other students draped themselves in Mexico’s national colors. The American-boosting students, though, were told to go home and change their clothes, and that they would not be allowed to wear the U.S. flag-themed garb because it might upset the Mexican students.
The students took the district to court and lost their case and their appeal to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court.
When the decision was handed down, American Freedom Law Center Co-Founder and Senior Counsel Robert Muise said, “It is truly a sad day when government officials are permitted to ban the American flag on a public high school campus for any reason. Here, school officials feared that our clients would offend ‘Mexican’ students if they wore their flag shirts to school on Cinco de Mayo, so they ordered the students to either remove their shirts or leave school in direct violation of their First Amendment rights.”
In contrast, authorities at Newport Harbor High School seem to have ruled that shirts attacking Donald Trump do not contain “triggering” messages but anyone speaking against the shirts may be punished.
Source: School OKs Hispanic Students Wearing 'Dump Trump' Shirts
No chance of that happening. Aside from the plants being outdated they come with a militant union that would rather starve than take a cut.
As opposed to the abject poverty of no jobs they had before.
Council of Canadians is nothing but an NDP glee club. They do not represent Canadians.
Their company was innovative and sold many products in the form of shrink-proof heavy woolen underwear that were used by workers during the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890s. In 1898, they developed Stanfield's Unshrinkable Underwear and in 1915 they introduced an adjustable two-piece design patented on 7 December 1915.
To this day. Stanfield's is widely known as "The Underwear Company."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanfield's
Stanfield's Wool Long Underwear
So what will the Trudeau Libs give up to allow the USA to be the winners...........?
Anthony Scaramucci, a senior adviser on the Trump transition team, told a group of business leaders convened at a bipartisan meeting by the group No Labels that President-elect Trump is a free-trader who is looking to make trade deals more fair, not scrap them.
“I don’t think anybody in the administration is looking for quote-unquote tariffs, but I think they are a cudgel if you will to lay out there if we can’t get the trade deals to be right-sided to now benefit the American people.”
Scaramucci said trade officials failed to use the “regulatory process or the review process” created under NAFTA to ensure fair compliance and said the United States as lost about 70,000 factories since NAFTA.
He also said the United States has pursued a policy of signing trade deals that made it easier for foreign partners to export goods to American consumer than for U.S. manufacturers to penetrate foreign markets.
He added that deals signed since World War II were designed to promote global peace and stability, but sometimes came at the expense of American workers.
Transition official: Trump will not rip up NAFTA | TheHill
Anthony Scaramucci, a senior adviser on the Trump transition team, told a group of business leaders convened at a bipartisan meeting by the group No Labels that President-elect Trump is a free-trader who is looking to make trade deals more fair, not scrap them.
“I don’t think anybody in the administration is looking for quote-unquote tariffs, but I think they are a cudgel if you will to lay out there if we can’t get the trade deals to be right-sided to now benefit the American people.”
Scaramucci said trade officials failed to use the “regulatory process or the review process” created under NAFTA to ensure fair compliance and said the United States as lost about 70,000 factories since NAFTA.
He also said the United States has pursued a policy of signing trade deals that made it easier for foreign partners to export goods to American consumer than for U.S. manufacturers to penetrate foreign markets.
He added that deals signed since World War II were designed to promote global peace and stability, but sometimes came at the expense of American workers.
Transition official: Trump will not rip up NAFTA | TheHill
I can remember the glee in Washington when the FTA was signed. One Congressman even when so far as to state that it was now only a matter of time before Canada became a part of the US. It didn't work out that way, but one of the problems with the FTA has always been the US ignoring the rules whenever some lobby group pressured the government due to competition from Canada.
Trump did not speak a word of truth during the campaign but his lies and emotionalism sure sparked a lot of interest and sympathy and won him the election:
All Pants on Fire! statements involving Donald Trump | PolitiFact
Just giving the Devil his due!
Not only that but it gets so damn cold in places we risk testicular shattering, so we need a climate appropriate undergarment.
The Trump administration is signaling Canada could face the same retaliatory trade measures as Mexico, in what would be an even bigger disruption to automakers such as Toyota Motor Corp. and Fiat Chrysler .
Asked whether an auto border tax could impact Canada, President-elect Donald Trump’s spokesman, Sean Spicer, told reporters their policy isn’t specific to any one country. “When a company that’s in the U.S. moves to a place, whether it’s Canada or Mexico, or any other country seeking to put U.S. workers at a disadvantage,” Spicer said on a conference call Friday, then Trump “is going to do everything he can to deter that.”
Any move to thwart imports from Canada would be a more severe impediment to the North American auto sector than sanctions against Mexico, since the industry’s links with the U.S.’s northern neighbor run deeper. Assembly in Canada, which along with the U.S. is a higher-cost producer than Mexico, is also focused on the more profitable and faster growing light-truck and sports vehicle segment of the market.
“Canada is building a lot of vehicles that are in demand,” said Kevin Tynan, a senior auto analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence.
Border taxes would hurt both nations, according to Linda Hasenfratz, chief executive officer of Guelph, Ontario-based auto-parts maker Linamar Corp. “We are trying to be globally competitive” in North America against overseas rivals, she said Wednesday on Bloomberg TV Canada. The industry is “intertwined” with “parts going back across the border multiple times
video
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/...s-automobile-border-tax-could-also-hit-canada
Asked whether an auto border tax could impact Canada, President-elect Donald Trump’s spokesman, Sean Spicer, told reporters their policy isn’t specific to any one country. “When a company that’s in the U.S. moves to a place, whether it’s Canada or Mexico, or any other country seeking to put U.S. workers at a disadvantage,” Spicer said on a conference call Friday, then Trump “is going to do everything he can to deter that.”
Any move to thwart imports from Canada would be a more severe impediment to the North American auto sector than sanctions against Mexico, since the industry’s links with the U.S.’s northern neighbor run deeper. Assembly in Canada, which along with the U.S. is a higher-cost producer than Mexico, is also focused on the more profitable and faster growing light-truck and sports vehicle segment of the market.
“Canada is building a lot of vehicles that are in demand,” said Kevin Tynan, a senior auto analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence.
Border taxes would hurt both nations, according to Linda Hasenfratz, chief executive officer of Guelph, Ontario-based auto-parts maker Linamar Corp. “We are trying to be globally competitive” in North America against overseas rivals, she said Wednesday on Bloomberg TV Canada. The industry is “intertwined” with “parts going back across the border multiple times
video
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/...s-automobile-border-tax-could-also-hit-canada
I am very afraid that Trump is going to be bad for Canada in so many ways........very much so on trade.
Even worse, the moron in the White House is going to make our own idiot PM look good in comparison.......and provide him with an excuse for his failures.
We have become idiocracies, on both sides of the border.
The opposite sides of the same coin.
Even worse, the moron in the White House is going to make our own idiot PM look good in comparison.......and provide him with an excuse for his failures.
We have become idiocracies, on both sides of the border.
The opposite sides of the same coin.