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My offer still stands. You wanna visit Montreal, you hit me up and Ill show you a good time anytime you want when you are ready. Ill be your guide for you and your lovely wife and kids. I know the city inside and out. Historic places, restaurants, shopping, skiing, hockey, cabane a sucre, lake beaches around Montreal, water parks, Lachine Canal or Lachine Rapids ...whatever activity in whatever season.

beautiful pictures. Yes, the scenery is nice, but I complimenting you on taking nice pictures. Canada...ANYWHERES in Canada right about now is SCORCHING hot.

Yes. Id say it is cultural as well. SO much so that the Grand Ole Party knows this soooooo well that they have Gerrymandered the electoral map to favour them in certain states and they keep on trying to Gerrymander the phoque out of it as we speak. To squeeze as much maga juice from the maga fruit as they can. Because the grand Ole Party knows that their are some deep rooted cultural issues going on. To be fair, the reason why there are soooo many cultural issues is BECAUSE the Grand Ole Party has created these cultural divides to begin with. To be even fairer though, some of these cultural issues have always been there from the beginnings of your country. Some of it is present in my country as its the same people that came over from England and France to colonize this place called North America. Add the Spanish for your country and well...you get cultural wars that were never really resolved from the wars of Europe 200-300-400 years ago between these European countries... This divide has always existed is what Im saying. And this divide not only implies cultural dominance over one another, but religious dominance over one another too. And all this is even BEFORE Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Then add slavery to the mix and I know you know what it is Im saying. In the middle of a tariff war with our closest and dearest neighbour, all of Canada decided to unite and be united like Canada has ever been in our history...yet, L'office de la lnague Francaise, the French language police if you will, decided to target a Montreal Pub that has an ambiguous English name. Places of business NEED to be in French. A new by-law that was given more teeth to enforce a couple of years ago. It has always existed this law since the late 1970s or early 1980s but a couple of years ago, it was pushed to the front again... The Burgundy Lion Pub. Long story short, politicians will ALWAYS try to divide and conquer the populace. But its up to the populace to decide what they really want to do with their society. And what Im seeing is that a certain group of people in the their US would rather sink their country into authoritarianism and with it the world JUST to try to stick it to them libtards... Now this is an angle from the perspective of a person that hates the extreme right. Im sure the extreme left tries to divide and conquer too in the US. But NOBODY from either side, nor from the middle, is trying to love each other but only hatred, bigotry, sexism and rascism is bubbling up to the surface. THIS is what Im seeing. Sans internet. But an observation from all kinds of sources.

@ccap41 @G. David Felt @A Horse With No Name Thank you for allowing me to express my anger and frustrations

You are right. Not every American is disgusting and ugly. I am wrong to paint everybody in that negative light. There are many nice Americans that didnt vote for this shyte. And Ill gladly accept your invite. As I hope you'll accept mine to come to Montreal and Ill show you my city. For real. But I will decline that invite temporarily. 51st state rhetoric and unwarranted tariffs on my country warrant me to think about my country first. Red States follow Trump's word and most folk down in those states now view Canada as an enemy because education is sorely lacking... Trump has hidden ideas for those tariffs on certain Canadian products. Lumber, steel and aluminium mostly. And he has convinced many in those fields that Canada truly is an enemy. I do not respect that. Also...yes, the internet is full of mis and dis information, but I can filter our the nonsense. But when I see California and New York sponsored (Blue States) travel ads on MY Canadian television stations telling me they miss my tourism...that only infuriates me more... Why? Well...I know that my fellow Canadians have mostly stopped from travelling to the States, and all that tells me about those adverts is that California and New York only miss my tourist DOLLARS. Not that they give a shyte about the welfare about MY country. Do NOT spend advertising dollars begging me to come back for my money, spend that money FIGHTING Trump and his regime... THIS is what Canadian tax payer money bought for advertising in those Red States THIS is what Canada as a country and as a people communicate to try and educate... Keep your phoquen golf balls... Apologize because your leader is a tyrant and you dont agree with the 51st state rhetoric. But do not tell me that. Fight in the streets that you do not agree with the 51st State rhetoric.. . Promise to fight for your freedoms. Dont beg me to come because you miss my tourist dollars and you will go broke. Boo freakin hoo. Do not tell me that Hollywood wouldnt be Hollywood without Canada. Shout that out loud so TRUMP... could hear you. SHOW it by fighting BACK at Trump!!! Again...dont tell me that Trump is trying to make enemies out of you and me. I know that. I aint stupid. But YOU fight back in your OWN country. California has got 2000 miles of beach coasts. Well...so does Canada. More actually. And its about time that we...CANADIANS, discover our OWN country. Time for us to love OUR country. You can start loving your own country. Start by respecting each other rather than the almighty dollar... So yeah...Im sure not all Americans are ugly. But American culture has turned to shyte. To which I say no thanks to!!! PS: Huge contrast on how each culture has decided to approach this. Its like our country is a joke to you folk. Its like you folk dont even respect your own society so why the phoque am I asking you to have empathy for my country when you guys dont even care for your own???!!! PSS: Yeah...I know there are public outcries. The news do not cover that. Make it so that the news DOES cover it... Your outcries do not go far enough... Your society is still to selfish...

The American political system does not need a phoquen revolution. Nor does it need a change in how people vote as how @Drew Dowdell stated in the Ford EV thread. The US needs to get their educational system back to world standards again. And not just to world standards, but the US needs to be on TOP of the world in education. And they need to do this NOW. Kinda hard when Trump defunded the education department... That is step 1. But before step 1 happens, American folk need to start having EMPATHY towards other people...MAINLY OTHER FELLOW AMERICANS. And to stop being so phoquen nosy on other people's business... But even before THAT happens, American people have to stop relying on what the phoquen church is preaching. It is quite ironic that the so called christians (no capital c as I do not think that denomination of the church that rules the bible belt are truly christians...) have devil thoughts and actions. And even BEFORE that happens, Americans need to stop being racist, sexist and all kinds of other 'ists' like narcissists, individual-ists... But that will never happen. I once thought the world of America, Americans and the American dream. Now...I am disgusted with what I see and hear about my neighbors to the south. The US has turned into one phoquen ugly society. Trump is not the reason for all this yuck, Trump is just the guy that has been able to take advantage of the ugliness that has become the American people.

GM CEO at the end of the video was not forthright about the eventual rise in prices by not wanting to link it to the tariffs. Donald J. Trump threatens not to raise the prices for the consumers to eat it and to definitely not blame the tariffs. He warned Walmart for that 2-3 months ago. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-walmart-prices-tariffs-response/ https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-warns-walmart-eat-tariffs-instead-raising-prices By GM not admitting that prices will rise BECAUSE of tariffs is PURE COWARDICE!!! You gotta stand up... Everybody gotta stand up. Businesses and civilians alike. But a GM CEO makes plenty of money, he/she dont care what a particular political leader does or does not do... It is the little guy that pays the price. The video talks about many OEMs having theor profits slashed by a significant amount. I was shocked with Toyota's loss of profits as well as GM's. I want to surprised with Ford's results. But lets keep in mind those are figures for Q2. By year's end, lots of panick for those same CEOs not wanting to fight back the tariffs loud, proud and publicly... The sales prices WILL go up regardless if CEOs want to admit reasons are tariffs. These CEOs better hope that American citizens have deep pockets and are capable of absorbing yet another price hike on yet another product. And for how long can these deep pockets of these very very rich average American Joes last? But I keep on hearing that average Americans do not monies for groceries. And wasnt Biden fired from his Presidency because the price of eggs were sky high even BEFORE the tariffs and Donald J. Trump himself? Ah yes...yes... I kinda remember something like that...

Chevrolet will give us an Ultium Bolt. Which is not bad. I wish they would have changed up the styling. Not jut a refresh but a brand new body to go along with the Ultium battery technology. But I see how Chevrolet could keep the price down by just refreshing the body. Id like to see if Canadians keep the Elbows Up regarding the automobile industry. Its hard to boycott as GM, Ford and Chrysler do keep the factories open in Canada. It will be interesting to see how Canadians are going to react to the KIA EV2 GT. Of all the American product boycotting in Canada, GM and Ford are not really targeted.

I agree. And I understand what you wrote about no mandate needed. EVs will turn that tipping point in due time. Shortly. And like you said, Chinese EVs will be the ones to do it. I included that tidbit ONLY because most Americans STILL cant get off the oil addiction they have. GM has mentioned that they are going along with the 2035 timeline. But since Trump has alienated America from its allies, GM will try to delay 2035. Like Dodge though, V8s and turbocharged lawn mower sized engines in CUVs will only get you so much. The rest of the world is strumming along with the 2035-2040 timeline regardless what the Chinese automotive industry is doing. I used 2035 as a visual as that is only 9 years away... Dodge announcing the Durango only gets V8 offerings and is ditching the 6 cylinder offerings, and some Americans declare a win for the internal combustion engine...missing the real problems for the American automotive industry. Like you said, but with my angle, 2035 is a short 9 years away to stress a point. What you said about no mandate needed as EVs will tip the point probably before 2035. But in America, your folk lack critical thinking skills and do not realize what you said, thinking that a Hellcat powered 15 year old SUV is a saviour for the internal combustion engine and everything else is misinformation.

Sales slowing down 2% for Gen Zers. But a whopping 10% just in Canada alone because of our boycott. Yeah...like I said, Gen Zers was not enough to cause these bankruptcies. The Canadian boycott was. And as I said, American journalism wants to soften the blow as to hush hush how Trump targeted Canada and is losing this battle. The article states that Europe hasnt levied their tariffs on American booze just yet. But Im willing to bet that Europeans have boycotted American booze anyhow. When California wine makers, the smaller ones suffer the same fate eventually in 2026, are we gonna blame that on Gen Z as well? Possibly. To not blame Trump and his shytty victimhood by engaging economic warfare with the planet...

Those factors have contributed to declining alcohol sales, with bourbon sales specifically slowing down to just 2% between 2021-2024, according to ISWR data. President Donald Trump's global tariffs have been the final straw. The EU has announced retaliatory tariffs against US goods, including Kentucky bourbon and Californian wine, although implementation has been delayed for six months. Meanwhile, most provinces in Canada have stopped importing American alcoholic beverages in retaliation. The country accounts for about 10% of Kentucky's $9bn (£6.7bn) whiskey and bourbon business. "That's worse than a tariff, because it's literally taking your sales away, completely removing our products from the shelves ... that's a very disproportionate response," Lawson Whiting, the CEO of Brown-Forman, which produces Jack Daniels, Woodford Reserve and Old Forester, said back in March when Canadian provinces announced their plan to stop buying US booze.

https://www.moneydigest.com/1825884/why-walmart-stores-closing-2025/ https://www.thestreet.com/retail/walmart-cvs-panera-and-more-quietly-close-more-stores Daniel Kline Aug 3, 2025 9:08 AM EDT Reviewed by Celine Provini These retailers have quietly closed stores in 2025 While some closures get more attention than others, these have flown under the radar. In most cases that's by design, as companies don't want the negative local publicity that comes from closing until the shutdown process has already begun. Walmart Locations closed in July-August 2025 in Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Often cited for underperformance, crime, or changing local demand. CVS Still executing previously announced plan (900 stores over 3 years). Panera Bread Some franchisees are closing low-volume locations quietly. Rite Aid Bankruptcy-related closures, but many new rounds still being added. Entire company is being shut down. Family Dollar / Dollar Tree 1,000+ closures expected by the end of 2025. Walgreens Continued "store footprint optimization" through mid-2025. Macy’s Closing 66 stores, with 150 total closures expected by 2026. Maybe 154 store closures were in 2016 and Walmart may have completed those by 2024, Walmart is closing an additional 11. But...that is not the issue here. The issue is that OTHER retailers are closing as well. And its a significant amount. I guess Gen Zers are to blame for this as well? At the end of the day, it does NOT matter if Gen Zers are not drinking whiskey. At the end of the day, Trump's tariffs are killing the US economy ALL AROUND. Turn a blind eye to it, tell me Im posting misinformation or that Im gullible to not believe what the Kentucky bourbon industry is telling us, call me anything you want...tariffs were called no good for the economy. And tariffs are reeling the benefits as we speak right now. What are those benefits? You guys have a brain. Believe what you wanna believe. God bless America!!! Just hope he forgives you for turning a blind eye to all those Epstein and Trump victims...

As I sees it, Ford, even though in Europe, Ford is considered to be more or less a Euro company, will have a hard time selling its cars there. Trump has tried to hurt Europe with tariffs and Europeans will boycott Ford with that. Its not as if European car makers do not exist. GM is not even in the European car market. China? Forget about how the Chinese population favours their own car makers, GM and Ford as of now, 2025, are BEHIND in EV tech. Im not sure about quality and reliability, but in tech, way behind. GM and Ford will never sell EVs to be profitable in China. Those days when GM made money hands over fists in China are loooooong gone. Ford entered that market way to late. Stellantis is European. China has flooded the world with affordable EVs. People in South America, unless these people are drug lord cartel people, Hummer EVs are not bread and butter for GM. In South America, Chinese EVs will rule the roost. If they are not already. Which leaves Stellantis, Ford and GM strictly a North American market to sell to. Tariffs are making the bread and butter vehicles out of reach for the average American to buy, so I do not see Ford and GM selling tons of cars in our market either. Many Americans are upside down on their car loans at least 4 cars in. Meaning, their car loans have been rolled unto their new car purchase 4 new cars ago... The economy will bust soon. How soon? Will it be 2029 soon? Yeah! Quite possible!!! Remember, the world has largely agreed to go gasoline free for pedestrian vehicles by the earliest 2035. 2040? GM has pleaded by 2035. It does not matter if Trump rescinds this in the US. THE WORLD has decided that in THEIR countries, a whole bunch of them, will cease the sale of new EVs by 2035. 2040? Just around the corner... Like you said...Hellcat powered anything wont do shyte even in the US...

As it shouldn't. 2 terms. No more. Yup. Your constitution and your legislative, executive and judicial branches as defined by your constitution are all rock solid. He hasnt, nor does he now and he wont in the future try to over power it in any way shape or form. Yup. 2 terms. Without any incident or issue. Wont cry any fowl. Wont cling unto power. Will not abuse his powers. Will not do anything but concede. If you say so and hopefully the people defending the constitution in all facets of everybody will also uphold the constitution...

Quite possible... As that is my point... And my skepticism... So I guess Kentucky bourbon industry isnt suffering then. Misinformation all around. My bad. Tariffs arent hampering your economy either.

Will it happen or wont it happen? Only Trump, his kids and his administration truly know the answer to that future.

No feelings. Just facts. But I see as to how Americans are in this predicament... You keep on thinking that Gen Z is a cause... It seems that you are believing with feelings...

And you really believe that he will relinquish his office in 2028? But you did ask me a question. GM profit down 35% in Q2 of 2025. Net profit so far in Q2 is 1.9 billion from 47 billion revenue. https://gmauthority.com/blog/2025/07/gm-q2-2025-earnings-revenue-income-profit/#:~:text=GM Q2 2025 earnings are,1.8 percent drop in revenue. And tariffs havent really been activated fully. And Trump keeps on redacting and modifying because his admin actually does know the damage being done. But GM is really hurtin' not even a full year into Trump's presidency JUST as the Ultium EV collection has been taking off for GM. GM needs ALL their profits to engineer Ultium 2.0 and to better combat a possible Chinese onslaught in North America and of course all over the world. There are Chinese EVs in the Mexican market. Not yet in Canada as our politicians are keeping hope alive as to still salvage a partnership with the US. But that hope is diminishing. Canada has gone elsewhere for economic partnerships and the last bastion of a US/Canada partnership IS in the automotive industry. And the ONLY reason why Canada hasnt jumped ship in that industry just yet is because we do not fully trust China. But its truly sad to be putting not trusting the US in the same breath as not trusting China... So yeah...GM is on shaky ground for 2029. Bankrupt in 2029? Not quite but not far off if current trends are keeping the line. The Trump regime has become an autocracy. Not a dictatorship. There is a difference. One that the civilians have allowed and not by force. I wonder what WILL happen in 2028? You think the constitution will be honoured? In many areas it hasnt...

Thank you for acknowledging the obvious... But you did ask me a question for me to address. Gen Z. 1997-2012 2024 (because problems started last last year...)- 21 (drinking age) = 2003 2018 would be the first year Gen Zers drank whiskey as they came of age to drink. 6 years of Gen Zers drinking but as soon Ticky Tocky told Gen Zers to drink more healthily, than ALL of Gen Z stopped drinking whiskey simultaneously causing all this mess. 6-7 years worth of Gen Zers drinking and THAT is the cause for bankruptcy. Have the Boomers completely stopped drinking whiskey too? What about Gen Xers? I dunno how popular whiskey was with Gen X, but I do know that Gen X drank a lot when we were in our 20s. And from the Kentucky area only as the one from Tennessee aint really complainin' loudly about Gen Z being a problem. But he did complain about Canada dropping his brand from ALL Canadian liquor stores. He did laugh and say that Canadian sales do not account much anyway. But I didnt hear him complain about Gen Z at all in the beginning of this mess... So Gen Zers targeted Kentucky bourbon area distilleries only... When this first happened, NO article mentioned Gen Z about a possible problem... https://abcnews.go.com/Business/kentucky-bourbon-industry-caught-middle-global-tariff-war/story?id=119675707 https://globalnews.ca/news/11068673/donald-trump-tariffs-us-alcohol-canada/ https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2025/03/07/canada-spirits-rep-tariffs https://www.courier-journal.com/story/life/food/spirits/bourbon/2025/02/03/canadas-decision-to-stop-buying-us-alcohol-will-hurt-kentucky-bourbon/78177222007/ https://theconversation.com/u-s-tariff-threat-how-it-will-impact-different-products-and-industries-248824 https://apnews.com/article/tariffs-kentucky-bourbon-trump-canada-europe-11bbb928bcacccb6ba35c31522783e14 Me thinks American journalism is trying to soften the blow about how shytty Trump really is and trying to lay blame elsewhere. Yeah. Hard NO to the excuse that Gen Z is causing a 9 billion dollar industry to go bust all of a sudden when its the world actually BOYCOTTING American whiskey BECAUSE of Trump's needless and useless tariff war. https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article307948565.html This articles states that Jack Daniels erased a decades worth of growth. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jack-daniels-parent-sees-weight-loss-drugs-cannabis-hurting-liquor-sales-bce7beea This article blames weight loss drugs, cannabis and Gen Z. Yeah...coincidentally all those factors stopped a decades long growth JUST to end it on tic tok fads of last year. NOT because Tennessee is a Red State, and that the world has targeted to boycott Red State products. THIS is my opinion of course. You cant really blame me for being skeptical... Cheers with Canadian Club this time around Elbows Up!!!

The point is that going forward, Ford EVs: 1. This is a new way of assembling vehicles. The new production line is now a production tree with three branches that converge into one. 2. Ford has cut a lot of weight out of the platform. 4,000 fewer feet of wiring harness, 25% less fastener. Lower weight will mean more range with less battery. 3. LFP cells that are built in the US without cobalt or nickle. 4. Faster production, while overall production time will drop 15%, the assembly process will drop 40%. Ford will use some of that savings to in-source some component production. 5. 52,000 sq/ft expansion of Louisville facility. 6. Ford claims lower total cost to own than buying a 3-year old Model-Y. (I'd like to read the fine print on this one) 7. The way the components are assembled is now significantly more ergonomic, less twisting and bending for assembly workers. There was an audible gasp from someone in the crowd of assembly workers at the press event when the presenter said "You will never need to put a dash cluster through a door opening ever again". 8. The platform will allow many kinds of body styles including crossovers, sedans, and sport cars. The debut vehicle will arrive in 2027 as a mid-size truck. Something that Tesla did with #1, #2 , and #4 on that list a decade ago. Something that GM is doing with #8 on that list with the Ultium platform as it was once called. Something that Ford should have done from the very beginning when they came out with the Mach-E. Tesla and SandY Monroe were tooting that for the Model 3. I guess FoMoCo had to get the Mach-E out as fast as possible then though. Dont get me wrong, I fully agree with your post 100%. I was about to say better late than never, but I think with this Presidential administration, Ford will probably not survive Trump's presidency. Nor Stellantis in the US. And Im very iffy if GM survives too if the current tariff situation on Canadian steel and aluminium stays on. Sad to say.

Yup. The Canadian Premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (just before his resignation and our elections) decided to retaliate and target Red states because of tariffs and most importantly, the 51st state rhetoric. So...whiskey production and headquarters are mostly at Red States. So off came the American booze from our Province owned and run liquor stores. Jack Daniels CEO laughed at that as he said Ontario and Canadian liquor sales is but a mere 1 or 2 percent of Jack Daniels sales. Then he realized that his product is OFF the phoquing shelves and then he complained foul game play... But its definitely fine when his President declares annexation towards Canada... Its OK for tariffs... Maybe Jack Daniels might not be suffering too much, but the smaller Kentucky distilleries are in danger. Some are filing for bankruptcy. 9 billion dollar industry and one man has destroyed it. Not too forget the tourism industry. New York, Maine, Florida, Nevada and even California is feeling the pinch when Canadians decided to give Americans the middle finger. Red States or even Blue... When Trump STILL threatens annexation and most Americans are oblivious of that fact, never you mind empathy towards us Canadians...the middle finger and avoidance of anything American is a proper response from us Canadians. What is even sadder, American rights and freedoms are being stripped and yet not push back from American citizens. THAT is just UNACCEPTABLE. Fight for your rights people. Soon you wont have any. Big Three CEOs and accountants keep begging Trump to ditch the tariffs. He wont ditch them. He wants to control the Canadian steel and aluminium industry. He cant and wont be able to. For many reasons. But he will destroy the American automotive industry waaaaaay before the US gets a smidgen of Canada's industry which will be a moot point at that juncture. And Im afraid the damage is already done world wide. Who in the phoque will buy GM, Ford or even Tesla EVs when the WORLD is hatin' on the US???!!! When the Chinese EV industry is already engulfing the planet with really affordable EVs...