If the first way is “asking nicely” and the second way is using punitive tariffs… what is the third way?
Posted by JohnTurneround
If the first way is “asking nicely” and the second way is using punitive tariffs… what is the third way?
Posted by JohnTurneround
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We literally have blackhawks at the border now what is this loser talking about lol
JD Vance is on record saying he’ll tell the stories he needs to to sell his political goals. Can’t trust a word that comes out of his mouth since then.
In 1844, President James K. Polk ran on a Democratic platform that supported manifest destiny, the idea that Americans were predestined to occupy the entire North American continent. The last act of Polk’s predecessor, John Tyler, had been to annex the Republic of Texas in 1845. Polk wanted to lay claim to California, New Mexico, and land near the disputed southern border of Texas. Mexico, however, was not so eager to let go of these territories.
Polk started out by trying to buy the land. He sent an American diplomat, John Slidell, to Mexico City to offer $30 million for it. But the Mexican government refused to even meet with Slidell. Polk grew frustrated. Determined to acquire the land, he sent American troops to Texas in January of 1846 to provoke the Mexicans into war.
When the Mexicans fired on American troops in April 25, 1846, Polk had the excuse he needed. He declared, “[Mexico] has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon American soil,” and sent the order for war to Congress on May 11.
Northern Whigs also questioned the need for war, but they remembered how New England’s opposition to the War of 1812 had destroyed the old Federalist Party, and they were anxious to avoid a similar political disaster. The Senate voted 40-2.
We are doomed to repeat history.
he literally sounds like a guy seething over a woman he asked out shooting him down i cannot get over the extent to which he’s the pure essence of loserhood
And the “flow***”*** of drugs from Canada comes to…
[*”Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted about 19 kilograms of fentanyl at the northern border, compared with almost 9,600 kilograms at the border with Mexico, where cartels mass-produce the drug.”*](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world/canada/canada-fentanyl-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t04.pDKp.bJjkYlSSeAUz&smid=url-share)
The stupid man’s diplomacy