Marisa Kabas (born August 4, 1987[1][2]) is an American independent journalist,[3] former political strategist, and creator of the newsletter The Handbasket.
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Kabas broke the news that Trump's second administration ordered staff at the National Institutes of Health to stop travelling.[4] Days later, she broke the news that it was also was freezing federal grants, first posting on Bluesky about it.[2] Her scoops increased the amount of paid subscribers from 800 to 1,900.[5] The memo on federal grants was reversed two days after Kabas posted about it.[2] The Associated Press called it "a key moment for a growing cadre of journalists who work independently to gather and analyze news and market themselves as brands."[9]
Ain't nobody coming to help us, that should be clear by now. We need to develop them nukes, or maybe the UK can ship us 15 or so to give us some kind of deterrent. Shouldn't make light of this situation, but it is funny that the MAGA cult has consistently said Trump is the only thing to stop WWIII, instead he's going to lead the world into a new WMD arms race.
This is one of the most certain things about Trump. Anything he accuses others of (corruption, election manipulation, criminal activity, provoking wars, etc etc) you can be certain that he is doing exactly those things, just 10x worse. Its been proven time and time again.
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Good thing we’ve got all those patriotic gun toting truckers. The minute US armed forces step foot on Canadian soil because of this whole fentanyl wmd bs, they’ll be heading down to the border with their guns to defend our sovereignty right? Right?
Haha just kidding. Those treasonous cowards will be cheering it on. Bunch of braindead hillbillies.
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I know he is a lunatic, a mentally deficient and demented old man but I hope Canada continues to build and expand relationships with our other allies and continues to distance ourselves from the US. Even if they do a complete 180 tomorrow we should never be as close to them as we were in the past and I for one am fine with a significant amount of discomfort in the near future if it means building a more independent future that includes our other worldwide allies.
No country should be as complacent as we were with the US and while we will pay the price for some time now, I hope we continue to see more news of visits to European allies, visits to Australia, Japan, South Korea etc. These should be our allies and while we all need to work together since the US has shown it's true colors, never again should we become so reliant and complacent as we were in the past.
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We're only "nasty" because we've stood up for ourselves and pushed back in this stupid trade war. In Trump's warped, narcissistic brain, anyone who actually stands up to him is considered nasty.
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… did I see a glimmer of nervous realization that it isn’t a joke to him when she laughed off his verbal attacks on Canada?
Watching the whole interview she was pushing back on some things including the deficit number. Small win but nice to see from Fox. I think people are souring on him.
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I know he is a lunatic, a mentally deficient and demented old man but I hope Canada continues to build and expand relationships with our other allies and continues to distance ourselves from the US. Even if they do a complete 180 tomorrow we should never be as close to them as we were in the past and I for one am fine with a significant amount of discomfort in the near future if it means building a more independent future that includes our other worldwide allies.
No country should be as complacent as we were with the US and while we will pay the price for some time now, I hope we continue to see more news of visits to European allies, visits to Australia, Japan, South Korea etc. These should be our allies and while we all need to work together since the US has shown it's true colors, never again should we become so reliant and complacent as we were in the past.
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Agreed. There's been a lot of talk over the last few days of a new defence pact between the EU, Canada, UK, Australia, Japan, and others after Carney's visits this week to the UK and France. I really hope these kinds of talks continue. Personally I'd be overjoyed to join the EU at this point, or at least beef up our ties with them. Sounds like France has our backs at least for now.
Here's a good piece on the idea.
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Until a pipeline commences being built east / west to match production capacity (inclusive of growth), literally nothing any Canadian says is real or matters. It’s literally the only leverage point when it swings the trade deficit by $200B.
So until people get it through their heads that it’s pipeline or bust (I’m looking at you Quebec / BC), all the rest of it is rhetoric or bluster from Canada.
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I feel like if the US marched over our boarder today there is a reasonable chance it would be the tipping point for a civil war. But I fear as other have mentioned these things don't happen like that, He'll keep floating the idea until we stop reacting, then he'll amass troops at the boarder and leave them sitting there until we stop reacting, then he'll conduct some small raids into our territory and retreat, until we stop reacting, then he'll just leave them in our territory after a raid.
I think 8 years ago threatening to invade Canada alone would have been enough, now 85% of people are acting like they don't know if he's serious so it doesn't matter.
Crossing fingers we increase military cooperation with Japan, and co-fund joint research into the development of a real-life Gundam program. Let's see the faces on those Yanks when they run into 30-foot tall robots armed to the teeth with lasers and chain cannons, branded with a 10-foot tall maple leaf.
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You are wrong. There is a big difference between how countries see Ukraine and Canada. History repeats itself, it always does. You are talking WW3 that ends up with the United States looking like post war WW2 Germany. Trump is stupid enough to think Russia would back him but they would turn on him just destroy the Western super power. China would also use it as an excuse to destroy their main competition in the world market wise. It would be a war the US can't win and I guarantee US intelligence already knows this. Republicans in Congress are fine letting their deranged leader spew whatever he wants but I think you would see his own government impeach him pretty fast and get him out of there before there was ever an invasion of Canada.
Sorry diss, but this is half nonsense and half fantasy. If the USA decides to invade, and the whole complex buys in, we'll be rolled over solely on their timeline.
We have no special place above Ukraine, and we do not share land borders with anyone other than the USA.
Human actions and behaviors are cyclical, but 'history repeats itself' is a myth. The United States aren't likely to look anything different post-invasion as they do now. They are the most powerful nation on the planet, and they have the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons apart from Russia. There is no coalition of economic or military strength that is going to stop them without some type of nuclear intervention...and guess where that leaves us all.
It's a bit naive to think our reputation and relationships with other nations will magically save us. The only thing that may, IMO, is a military coup or civil war that disrupts the beast from within. And I actually (maybe naively) think that could be a likely scenario.
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