I was really hoping that the photo of Justin Trudeau, Donald Trump, etc. at dinner at Mar-a-Lago last evening would reveal some McDonald's or a bucket of KFC (some of Trump's favourites), but all I see is wine and water!

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Reality Check No. 2: In 2024, US Customs and Border Protection seized about 46 lbs of fentanyl coming in from Canada. Meanwhile, in the past year, it seized 21,148 lbs coming in from Mexico, or 460 times the amount from Canada.

Reality Check No. 1: Crossing from Canada, illegal migrant arrests have now levelled off somewhat and will probably be around 26,000 total in 2024. Crossing from Mexico, such arrests will be about 1.6 million people in the past year, or sixty times more than from Canada.

Trump: "As everyone is aware, thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before.” Actually, the illegal immigrant numbers are sixty times lower from Canada, and the fentanyl problem is about one thousand times lower from Canada.

First time COVID victim here. On Day 6 and finally getting better. It screwed up my work week and right when I needed to apply for a full-time position that's the route I was supposed to be covering this week. D'oh! So, I completed dozens of training modules instead (I'll get paid for the 6 hours).

"If your retirement portfolio is $500,000 or more, ... ." "Take a portion of your home's value and ... ." Stop; please make them stop!

Seriously, $150,000 is now the threshold for not having that much money?! One in seven (14%) of Canadians live in poverty, which, I promise you, is WAY below that number: about a sixth of it for single people and about a third of it for families of four. FFS: Help actual poor people!

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The average (median) American household's net worth is $192,200, which is 0.0000295692 of Trump's net worth and 0.00000067203 of Musk's. The "one percent" does not even slightly begin to describe who's about to run your country.

Trump said that no-one would ever have to vote again ("In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."). Eccentric, volatile billionaires Donald Trump ($6.5 billion net worth) and Elon Musk ($286 billion) do not have your interests in mind.

The US essentially believed in a non-existent illegal immigrant crisis ("studies have shown that illegal immigrants commit less crime than legal immigrants") and a non-existent economic crisis ("US GDP to expand at an annualized 2.5% rate in the fourth quarter," "tariffs would raise costs").

Appointing the world's richest person to head a new agency that is going to be hell-bent on efficiencies (which will undoubtedly include drastically reducing US government services) is not going to end well for the 36.8 million people living in poverty.

I've just been reading about Matt Gaetz. Attorney General?! Seriously?! A pig even piggier than President-Elect Piggy-Pig. Actually, he sounds about right for Trump's far-right end of civilization. If the US survives, maybe Kamala Harris can be appointed as AOC's Attorney General in 2028.

If Taylor Swift fans have been duped out of $70,000 in scam ticket sales re her Toronto shows (and it's likely to get much worse and probably also has been elsewhere), can't she just reimburse these fans? The tour has already grossed over one billion dollars!

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