That is precisely correct. Look at how China invests in their infrastructure compared to the US. And the DOD want's $1.5T for defense in next year's budget? Insane.
It’s important to remember that the DOD has never once passed an audit. We have no idea where that money is going. It is a cesspool of corruption. That can’t properly house feed or pay our soldiers, sailors, and marines.
I don't support the USA, even though I live here. That's all the trump regime does, commit genocide. Off the coast of Venezuela, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria....and other countries the DoD doesn't tell us about. He wants to forcibly take over Greenland, Cuba.
IMPEACH AND DUMP TRAITORS, NAZIS PREDATORS AND ENABLERS , IMPERIALIST CRIMINALS, WAR MONGERS, CAREER CRIMINALS, CRIMINAL GRIFTERS, FASCIST PIGS, FRAUDSTERS, RACIST, AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE. RELEASE ALL UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES AND JAIL CON RTRUMP. AVOID CON RTRUMP'S AND THE REPUBLICON'S RECESSION AND DEPRESSION. FIX CLIMATE CHANGE, FOR THE FAIR DEAL, NOT THE RAW DEAL. VOTE BLUE AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. STOP THE RTRUMP OLIGARCHY. BOYCOTT CRIMINAL RTRUMP & ELON THE NAZIS. DUMP CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE.
I wish another country would say, "hey, doesn't the USA need a regime change? Seems trump has gone a little insane". And come save us from him. If it's Vance next and Vance does the same, take him also. This is absolutely nuts.
“We the people” are being held hostage by a Trumpian choice of war without the consent of Congress. Making this worse, Hegseth is directing war crimes. If we were part of ICC, they would be prosecuted for war crimes in the Caribbean as well as in Iran. I agree that Trump analogized Iran being like Venezuela.
threatening to force Canada to support their inhumane blockade against Cuba as part of trade negotiations?
Canada has tried to provide some humanitarian aide to Cuba, where children and the elderly are dying due to this blockade which seems to be a fun game for Trump as the Iran war is getting boring.
People are dying in Cuba for the Emperor’s entertainment.
And why support an Administration which refuses to negotiate tariffs with Canada, leading to higher costs for Lumber and other products during a housing crisis??
Why support an Administration that provides Canada with a MAGA Ambassador who says sovereignty is part of trade negotiations, and is actively working with separatists to destroy the US “best friend and ally”?
It’s all irrational and it all costs money and weakens the US and it’s “allies”.
It’s all a mystery - none of it makes sense anymore.
It seems to Canadians that the American people have given up on Canada, and put no serious pressure on the US Administration or Congress to stop trying to break up Canada - through disinformation campaigns coming out of the US trying to take advantage of the Alberta separatist movement; disinformation coming from Russia and through a Netherlands group, thanks to Ambassador Hoekstra; interfering with the referendum vote, promising millions of dollars to the leaders of the Alberta separatists to encourage them to leave Canada, working to install MAGA in Canada - once again with support from Ambassador Hoekstra.
This is the same grab for oil and rare earth metals that is going on elsewhere. Trump wants them for free instead of through fair trade.
There has been no serious push back by State Governors or Congress re the refusal to negotiate fairly on tariffs.
Those are issues that are serious and hurt the people of both countries
Yet US media never even mentions it.
I find it hard to understand.
It’s not that Canadians have given up on the US.
Americans have given up on standing up for Canada in any serious way.
The US media, State Governors and the Congress need to pressure Trump to start dealing instead of trying to steal Canadian resources without paying for them.
While Carney has worked to diversify Canadian markets in order to protect Canadians from the impact of the previous monopolistic relationship with the US - which left Canada completely dependent on the US and subject to the madness of Trump - that still leaves the bulk of trade with the US, which is advantageous to both countries.
Yes Martha. I don’t think Americans have given up on Canada. It’s our administration that is trying to draw blood from all our allies and destroy NATO. These people hate Americans. They hate our diversity. They hate our allies. They hate we voted for a black president. It’s a deep dark infection that spread beneath our feet while we were stupidly going on about our business. It’s the same crap happening in Alberta and England. Thousands of Americans love Canada! 🇨🇦 we are standing up but trying to avoid war — which they clearly want so they can reconstruct the Civil War with the South winning since they have control of our military. Every morning we wake up with 18 news stories for us all to freak out about such as they want to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, then we’re in a war with Iran no one wanted, we are pulled out of WHO while there’s an Ebola outbreak. Then we’re told we are aligning with Russia and crime mobs are a business so they can be legal. Our heads are spinning. But no one but the administration wants Canada as a 51 state. Many of us here admire Carney. It’s the biggest smash and grab ever seen in history. The good news for Canada is you can stop this infection!!!! Do whatever it takes.
I do not get it at all. They are moving a bill to entwine our military with Israel and 100 plus Dems voted for it. Dont they remember the words: never again
Probably too late. Much of it is already embedded in U.S. policy and it will be nearly impossible to reverse without a significant regime change. "Significant" means almost no Republicans in Congress. Not likely...
He went in like a bull in a china shop... no reason no imminent threat to US... he trumpstein class war to hide the Files Un-redacted from the world... I think the power of the US is over everyone is laughing at us... cause he couldnt check with our nato allies... or the American people and I dont think we should NOT fund ice n border patrol... fund WIC
The far more important war is behind the scenes. It's the war for the de facto international currency, and we're losing the position we've held for decades. My colleagues in Switzerland, who handle investments for "high rollers," are gradually moving investments made in U.S. dollars into investments made in Chinese Yen because the U.S. can no longer be trusted. If international trade abandons the dollar, the interest on our accumulated national debt will destroy the country. Yes, the oligarchs will survive, but the rest of us will starve to death. Sometime before we reach that point, some form of revolution is likely. We are no match for our own military, so the revolution will take some other form, probably following the Ukraine and utilizing drones to attack from a distance. Canada is increasingly looking like a very pleasant refuge, but will probably be drawn into the chaos.
Good question! With an idiot like Hegseth in charge, possibly. A lot would depend upon how the "revolution" is described in the press and on TV. In the current confusion, if the citizens were called "antifa," quite possibly. If an organization such as the Proud Boys was recruited to make the initial forays, the possibility goes way up.
IMPEACH AND DUMP TRAITORS, NAZIS PREDATORS AND ENABLERS , IMPERIALIST CRIMINALS, WAR MONGERS, CAREER CRIMINALS, CRIMINAL GRIFTERS, FASCIST PIGS, FRAUDSTERS, RACIST, AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE. RELEASE ALL UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES AND JAIL CON RTRUMP. AVOID CON RTRUMP'S AND THE REPUBLICON'S RECESSION AND DEPRESSION. FIX CLIMATE CHANGE, FOR THE FAIR DEAL, NOT THE RAW DEAL. VOTE BLUE AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. STOP THE RTRUMP OLIGARCHY. BOYCOTT CRIMINAL RTRUMP & ELON THE NAZIS. DUMP CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE.
Also it seems even Democrats are voting to entwine our military with Israel’s. We needs to scream at the 100 plus dems that voted to move this forward. I’m so discouraged that our Dems would support genocide. Because that’s how I see this move.
The three pillars framework Plenzler lays out should be required reading for every member of Congress before they vote on anything military-related. Constitutional authorization. Immediate war tax. Shared sacrifice. Three simple tests and we've failed all three for 25 years straight.
The asymmetry point is the one that should wake people up: $2,500 drones forcing us to burn through multi-million dollar interceptor stockpiles. That's not a military problem that's a governance failure. When elite decision-makers bear zero personal cost, reckless commitments become routine.
Madison was right. The war powers clause wasn't an afterthought it was the whole point. A Congress too cowardly to vote for war shouldn't be handing a president a blank check to fight one.
The public is done deferring. $6 gas has a way of ending deference very quickly.
Call your representatives. Demand the vote. This is exactly the kind of accountability moment democracies either rise to or don't.
BECAUSE we have a narcissistic, vengeful, man baby, (who failed in his first term) in charge and he wants revemge for HIS FAILURE the first time through.
Let me add to this dystopian possibility: the water. Unchecked Data centers using, polluting and destroying water systems for millions beyond on the verge of .
The basic problem is that the Hegseth/Trump foreign policy lacks any real form of diplomacy. They fired all of the knowledgeable diplomats. Imho, it is a deplorable foreign policy based upon the inappropriate use of our military and very expensive bombs. This Trumpian administration that LIKES war; Trump even outed Hegseth as a war monger.
The Iranians are watching our oil market. They know what's going on. Our reserves are going to be depleted very shown and starting the end of next week we may start hearing about some changes we will hear about.
I am sceptical of your claims about Iran murdering copius numbers of its own population....doesn't concur with news we get here, & opinions of Iranian friends.....I fear there is a lot of insidious propaganda in america........you should look at the sheer numbers of people killed in America's wars, by America, since WW2, let alone by your "greatest ally' Israel.
It seems you are arguing one is better than the other, and what we are saying is that both are bad.
Independent human rights organizations have firmly verified over 7,000 protester deaths (including over 200 minors) from the Iranian state crackdown, though the peak of the violence occurred during the winter of 2025–2026 just prior to the outbreak of the current regional war in February. However, leaked internal IRGC documents and civilian hospital records suggest a far more devastating toll, indicating that between 30,000 and 36,500 people may have been killed, driven largely by a brutal 48-hour massacre in early January. In stark contrast, the official Iranian government narrative heavily downplays the bloodshed, acknowledging only 3,117 deaths while classifying the civilian victims as terrorists and rioters.
yes I agree both sides (or all 3 sides) are bad.........I cannot comment on your numbers as I have no way to verify. Mossad seems to control much of the information coming out of Iran & I certainly don't trust them!. Iranian friends at uni say it's a modern place, the claims of religious police are greatly exaggerated & apply among very religious conservative families & groups.....their main criticism of their home country is of the wealth gap & treatment of poor people in Iran. I don't think we in the west have any right to make value judgements about their government, especially as our own are not that good!
That’s basically EXACTLY what Hasan Piker said.
Every dollar spend on a bomb is a dollar not going to your healthcare or child’s education.
That is precisely correct. Look at how China invests in their infrastructure compared to the US. And the DOD want's $1.5T for defense in next year's budget? Insane.
It’s important to remember that the DOD has never once passed an audit. We have no idea where that money is going. It is a cesspool of corruption. That can’t properly house feed or pay our soldiers, sailors, and marines.
China is going to end up ruling the world if we are not careful
How much opium did American businesses gather in Afghanistan.
But they don’t care about Americans not even their base
Please tell me why are we supporting a country that is committing genocide. Are we reliving Germany?
I don't support the USA, even though I live here. That's all the trump regime does, commit genocide. Off the coast of Venezuela, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria....and other countries the DoD doesn't tell us about. He wants to forcibly take over Greenland, Cuba.
Elect them all out. Money in politics has caused all of this insanity.
IMPEACH AND DUMP TRAITORS, NAZIS PREDATORS AND ENABLERS , IMPERIALIST CRIMINALS, WAR MONGERS, CAREER CRIMINALS, CRIMINAL GRIFTERS, FASCIST PIGS, FRAUDSTERS, RACIST, AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE. RELEASE ALL UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES AND JAIL CON RTRUMP. AVOID CON RTRUMP'S AND THE REPUBLICON'S RECESSION AND DEPRESSION. FIX CLIMATE CHANGE, FOR THE FAIR DEAL, NOT THE RAW DEAL. VOTE BLUE AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. STOP THE RTRUMP OLIGARCHY. BOYCOTT CRIMINAL RTRUMP & ELON THE NAZIS. DUMP CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE.
The traitor-in-chief is talking about Canada being the 51 state again too
I wish another country would say, "hey, doesn't the USA need a regime change? Seems trump has gone a little insane". And come save us from him. If it's Vance next and Vance does the same, take him also. This is absolutely nuts.
“We the people” are being held hostage by a Trumpian choice of war without the consent of Congress. Making this worse, Hegseth is directing war crimes. If we were part of ICC, they would be prosecuted for war crimes in the Caribbean as well as in Iran. I agree that Trump analogized Iran being like Venezuela.
Seems as though we are doing exactly that doesn't it.
Very good question.
And why support an Administration that is now
threatening to force Canada to support their inhumane blockade against Cuba as part of trade negotiations?
Canada has tried to provide some humanitarian aide to Cuba, where children and the elderly are dying due to this blockade which seems to be a fun game for Trump as the Iran war is getting boring.
People are dying in Cuba for the Emperor’s entertainment.
And why support an Administration which refuses to negotiate tariffs with Canada, leading to higher costs for Lumber and other products during a housing crisis??
Why support an Administration that provides Canada with a MAGA Ambassador who says sovereignty is part of trade negotiations, and is actively working with separatists to destroy the US “best friend and ally”?
It’s all irrational and it all costs money and weakens the US and it’s “allies”.
It’s all a mystery - none of it makes sense anymore.
Canada has given up on us and I understand that
It seems to Canadians that the American people have given up on Canada, and put no serious pressure on the US Administration or Congress to stop trying to break up Canada - through disinformation campaigns coming out of the US trying to take advantage of the Alberta separatist movement; disinformation coming from Russia and through a Netherlands group, thanks to Ambassador Hoekstra; interfering with the referendum vote, promising millions of dollars to the leaders of the Alberta separatists to encourage them to leave Canada, working to install MAGA in Canada - once again with support from Ambassador Hoekstra.
This is the same grab for oil and rare earth metals that is going on elsewhere. Trump wants them for free instead of through fair trade.
There has been no serious push back by State Governors or Congress re the refusal to negotiate fairly on tariffs.
Those are issues that are serious and hurt the people of both countries
Yet US media never even mentions it.
I find it hard to understand.
It’s not that Canadians have given up on the US.
Americans have given up on standing up for Canada in any serious way.
The US media, State Governors and the Congress need to pressure Trump to start dealing instead of trying to steal Canadian resources without paying for them.
While Carney has worked to diversify Canadian markets in order to protect Canadians from the impact of the previous monopolistic relationship with the US - which left Canada completely dependent on the US and subject to the madness of Trump - that still leaves the bulk of trade with the US, which is advantageous to both countries.
Yes Martha. I don’t think Americans have given up on Canada. It’s our administration that is trying to draw blood from all our allies and destroy NATO. These people hate Americans. They hate our diversity. They hate our allies. They hate we voted for a black president. It’s a deep dark infection that spread beneath our feet while we were stupidly going on about our business. It’s the same crap happening in Alberta and England. Thousands of Americans love Canada! 🇨🇦 we are standing up but trying to avoid war — which they clearly want so they can reconstruct the Civil War with the South winning since they have control of our military. Every morning we wake up with 18 news stories for us all to freak out about such as they want to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, then we’re in a war with Iran no one wanted, we are pulled out of WHO while there’s an Ebola outbreak. Then we’re told we are aligning with Russia and crime mobs are a business so they can be legal. Our heads are spinning. But no one but the administration wants Canada as a 51 state. Many of us here admire Carney. It’s the biggest smash and grab ever seen in history. The good news for Canada is you can stop this infection!!!! Do whatever it takes.
I appreciate your reply and understand.
The people of both countries are going through a terrible, terrible time.
This too shall pass - with our help.
I think many if us would like to join Canada.
I believe we the people will at one point need help from our friends from Canada.
Too late. We’ve lost them
I don’t think so. They know most Americans love Canadians. They know if we fall totally to fascism, It’s not good for them.
Hopefully, but they certainly don't trust us anymore. (Rightfully so)
I do not get it at all. They are moving a bill to entwine our military with Israel and 100 plus Dems voted for it. Dont they remember the words: never again
I don’t get it either. Makes no sense to me.
Dismantle, publisize the 2025 Doctrine.
Probably too late. Much of it is already embedded in U.S. policy and it will be nearly impossible to reverse without a significant regime change. "Significant" means almost no Republicans in Congress. Not likely...
I think we actually could see that as the red states are waking up
I do believe we can undo. Sadly the corporate Dems have done a bad job of defending us
Thank you both for a very important and useful show!
Thank you so much for watching.
He went in like a bull in a china shop... no reason no imminent threat to US... he trumpstein class war to hide the Files Un-redacted from the world... I think the power of the US is over everyone is laughing at us... cause he couldnt check with our nato allies... or the American people and I dont think we should NOT fund ice n border patrol... fund WIC
Yeah our power is over and maybe that’s a good
The far more important war is behind the scenes. It's the war for the de facto international currency, and we're losing the position we've held for decades. My colleagues in Switzerland, who handle investments for "high rollers," are gradually moving investments made in U.S. dollars into investments made in Chinese Yen because the U.S. can no longer be trusted. If international trade abandons the dollar, the interest on our accumulated national debt will destroy the country. Yes, the oligarchs will survive, but the rest of us will starve to death. Sometime before we reach that point, some form of revolution is likely. We are no match for our own military, so the revolution will take some other form, probably following the Ukraine and utilizing drones to attack from a distance. Canada is increasingly looking like a very pleasant refuge, but will probably be drawn into the chaos.
Will our armed forces fire on our own citizens?
Good question! With an idiot like Hegseth in charge, possibly. A lot would depend upon how the "revolution" is described in the press and on TV. In the current confusion, if the citizens were called "antifa," quite possibly. If an organization such as the Proud Boys was recruited to make the initial forays, the possibility goes way up.
We are all that now
I know.its so sad
IMPEACH AND DUMP TRAITORS, NAZIS PREDATORS AND ENABLERS , IMPERIALIST CRIMINALS, WAR MONGERS, CAREER CRIMINALS, CRIMINAL GRIFTERS, FASCIST PIGS, FRAUDSTERS, RACIST, AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE. RELEASE ALL UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES AND JAIL CON RTRUMP. AVOID CON RTRUMP'S AND THE REPUBLICON'S RECESSION AND DEPRESSION. FIX CLIMATE CHANGE, FOR THE FAIR DEAL, NOT THE RAW DEAL. VOTE BLUE AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. STOP THE RTRUMP OLIGARCHY. BOYCOTT CRIMINAL RTRUMP & ELON THE NAZIS. DUMP CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE.
Why no media coverage of US continuing support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza?
Bloody-knee billionaire Larry Ellison has taken a wrecking ball to one of our pillars of democracy, FREEDOM Of PRESS.
Also it seems even Democrats are voting to entwine our military with Israel’s. We needs to scream at the 100 plus dems that voted to move this forward. I’m so discouraged that our Dems would support genocide. Because that’s how I see this move.
The three pillars framework Plenzler lays out should be required reading for every member of Congress before they vote on anything military-related. Constitutional authorization. Immediate war tax. Shared sacrifice. Three simple tests and we've failed all three for 25 years straight.
The asymmetry point is the one that should wake people up: $2,500 drones forcing us to burn through multi-million dollar interceptor stockpiles. That's not a military problem that's a governance failure. When elite decision-makers bear zero personal cost, reckless commitments become routine.
Madison was right. The war powers clause wasn't an afterthought it was the whole point. A Congress too cowardly to vote for war shouldn't be handing a president a blank check to fight one.
The public is done deferring. $6 gas has a way of ending deference very quickly.
Call your representatives. Demand the vote. This is exactly the kind of accountability moment democracies either rise to or don't.
Thanks so much for watching and providing your thoughts.
BECAUSE we have a narcissistic, vengeful, man baby, (who failed in his first term) in charge and he wants revemge for HIS FAILURE the first time through.
yes
Let me add to this dystopian possibility: the water. Unchecked Data centers using, polluting and destroying water systems for millions beyond on the verge of .
.
The basic problem is that the Hegseth/Trump foreign policy lacks any real form of diplomacy. They fired all of the knowledgeable diplomats. Imho, it is a deplorable foreign policy based upon the inappropriate use of our military and very expensive bombs. This Trumpian administration that LIKES war; Trump even outed Hegseth as a war monger.
Excellent video and great content ! Thank you from Canada 🇨🇦
The Iranians are watching our oil market. They know what's going on. Our reserves are going to be depleted very shown and starting the end of next week we may start hearing about some changes we will hear about.
I am sceptical of your claims about Iran murdering copius numbers of its own population....doesn't concur with news we get here, & opinions of Iranian friends.....I fear there is a lot of insidious propaganda in america........you should look at the sheer numbers of people killed in America's wars, by America, since WW2, let alone by your "greatest ally' Israel.
It seems you are arguing one is better than the other, and what we are saying is that both are bad.
Independent human rights organizations have firmly verified over 7,000 protester deaths (including over 200 minors) from the Iranian state crackdown, though the peak of the violence occurred during the winter of 2025–2026 just prior to the outbreak of the current regional war in February. However, leaked internal IRGC documents and civilian hospital records suggest a far more devastating toll, indicating that between 30,000 and 36,500 people may have been killed, driven largely by a brutal 48-hour massacre in early January. In stark contrast, the official Iranian government narrative heavily downplays the bloodshed, acknowledging only 3,117 deaths while classifying the civilian victims as terrorists and rioters.
yes I agree both sides (or all 3 sides) are bad.........I cannot comment on your numbers as I have no way to verify. Mossad seems to control much of the information coming out of Iran & I certainly don't trust them!. Iranian friends at uni say it's a modern place, the claims of religious police are greatly exaggerated & apply among very religious conservative families & groups.....their main criticism of their home country is of the wealth gap & treatment of poor people in Iran. I don't think we in the west have any right to make value judgements about their government, especially as our own are not that good!