who wins in a wrestling match between Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chris Christie?
sometime in '24 tweet from Trump
"Sloppy JB Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model"
even people who get offended easily have to find this dig a good one
Nearly 1,600 people charged in the January 6, 2021 protest on the US Capitol....and 180 charged with carrying deadly weapons..thats less than 12%..the rest were barefisted..doesn't sound like much of an attempt to overthrow the government equipped like that ...
Bush #1 starting using Guantanamo as a detention center which was continued by Slick Willie but I can't verify your 45k figure. Can you?
Any internet search will give you all of the details.
Sure, common knowledge during the time Castro told them they could leave Cuba. Clinton said they would be detained at Gitmo during whatever processing was to be done. There were some Haitians as well. But it was similar to many other refugee camps around the world, where it was mostly tents, etc.
November 1991
The Pentagon builds housing for the flood of refugees arriving at the base from Haiti. In 1994, thousands of Cubans join them. Eventually, more than 45,000 Cubans and Haitians are held in tent cities covering much of the base. Most Cubans are admitted into the United States, but most Haitians are sent back home. The last of the Cubans depart in 1996.
and:
After campaigning against the policy of repatriation, Clinton reversed course and maintained it. By 1994 tens of thousands of Haitians and Cubans were held in a refugee camp at Guantanamo Bay.
Well, well, well. 
If one does a media search on "Clinton used Gauntanamo Bay" you get from;
PBS; "The little known history of Gauntanamo Bay". The move, first made by the George H. W. Bush administration, would lay the groundwork for the U.S. government in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks to claim it could hold people at Guantanamo Bay beyond the reach of American law.
They skipped right past Clinton.
USA TODAY; The center occupies a small portion of the base, with limited capacity, and cannot house the 30,000 people Trump suggested could be sent there, according to a report by the The Associated Press.
No mention of Clinton there!
Reuters; The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay was set up in 2002 by then-U.S. President George W. Bush to detain foreign militant suspects following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. There are 15 detainees left in the prison.
NBC NEWS; (my favorite) "CLINTON SLAMS GAUNTANAMO PRISION"
So where did I find 45,000??
STARS & STRIPES MAGAZINE; https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2025-01-30/guantanamo-bay-immigrants-16650045.html
In 1994, for instance, President Bill Clinton resumed the previous administration’s use of the Guantánamo base for processing Haitian refugees and later ordered Cuban asylum seekers caught at sea to be held on the base. Later that same year, the facility’s migrant population totaled 45,000, according to a government report.
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2025-01-30/guantanamo-bay-immigrants-16650045.html
Source - Stars and Stripes
All those media outlets and not one mentions Clinton years. And the fact the population totaled 45,000. All at one time or maybe a yearly total? Could be. Don't blame ya for questioning me, media doing their Trump era selective reporting......again.
I was here for the Mariel boatlift in the 80's when Castro emptied his jails & allowed thousands more to leave the island & it was wild with boasts arriving at all hours of the day. Many of them ended up in our jails & soon we had the influx of coke with the Cocaine Cowboys & eventually they were also put in jail. For those who were stopped before they reached our shores, Guantanamo was the logical place to secure them. As far as the Haitians, they have been coming here for decades. There are pros & cons as to how the Clinton administration dealt with the unrest, poverty & Haitians fleeing their country in fear of their lives.
However, the 45k number kept in Guantanamo surprises me.
Trump is a moron and convicted criminal leader of the GOP
NO ONE WINS: Compared with any other major country, the United States has been extremely fortunate in its two immediate neighbors, Canada and Mexico. Now, incredibly, it is declaring economic war on both of them. This is a war no one can win, and from which tens of millions will lose.
Does anyone know why The Donald is doing this? It's a self inflicted gunshot wound to our economy.
His first foreign policy initiative is to attack our neighbors & our own citizens? Where's the logic?
Are you on the right taking The Donald literally yet?
This is insanity.
STUPIDITY:
MAGA: What I like best about Trump is no wars!
The Donald Day 13: “I’ve ordered military air strikes in Somalia.”
MAGA: Who's Somalia?
MAGA: Our lord and master will bring down food prices.
The Donald: I’m placing tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.
And tonight at an NHL game in Ottawa, Canadians booed the US National Anthem.
Can you believe that?
I was surprised that DJT put the 10% on Canadian energy. if you audit both sides then 100%, we have a trade deficit with Canada but take away oil then its splitting hairs. He should've left oil alone but that's why people hate on the guy. He has a very unique way of negotiating business, always has been this way. I've had bosses like him and met numerous people both men and women just like DJT in my lifetime. There are more people in this world that are narcissistic than you realize, its only when you leave that bubble that you grew up in and try to live life in another part of the world do you realize how bipolar the left and the right are to each other in the US. we are not free in the US if someone on the right wins, but that person used to be a left voter. Trump was a democrat, till Obama put him on blast. It's what the left are doing to RFKjr and Tulsi now, the party cannot stand someone leaves. kind of reminds you of the church that tom cruise belongs to, you know the one that king of queen's wife was in and the 70s show Hyde belonged to. The excommunicated
Does anyone know why Trump is doing this?
"We'll be announcing the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for a number of reasons," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Number one is the people who have poured into our country so horribly and so much. Number two are the drugs — fentanyl and everything else that have come into the country. And number three are the massive subsidies we are giving to Canada and Mexico in the form of deficits.
A Drug Enforcement Association (DEA) intelligence report from 2020 noted Mexico, China and India as the three biggest players in fentanyl production.
"While Mexico and China are the primary source countries for fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked directly into the United States, India is emerging as a source for finished fentanyl powder and fentanyl precursor chemicals," it reads.
Last year, the U.S. spent $377 million on Canadian imports and recouped $322 million, leaving them with a trade deficit of $54M. The highest this annual deficit was during Trump's first term was $25 million
Data from the US Census Bureau shows the trade defict with Canada is the highest since 2008.
Source; Newsweek
So in his zeal to punish other countries, the American citizens become collateral damage?
How do tariffs translate to slowing the flow of illegal drugs?
PRESS SECRETARY BARBIE: When asked about the tariff war (fraud Peter Navarro doesn't want us to call it a war) between Canada & the US, the Prime Minister said he would consider cutting off electricity to America if the Donald continued to impose tariffs, she referenced Jesus Christ.
"They want you to panic but President Trump wants you to remember Jesus didn't have electricity either & he did just fine."
Yup, he was doing fine until they crucified him. He didn't have WiFi either but managed to spread his word.
Geezzz, she's the newest village idiot.
CANADA AND THE US:
President John F Kennedy Address Before the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa. May 17, 1961..
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder. What unites us is far greater than what divides us. The issues and irritants that inevitably affect all neighbors are small deed in comparison with the issues that we face together--above all the somber threat now posed to the whole neighborhood of this continent in fact, to the whole community of nations. But our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against. And so it is that when we speak of our common attitudes and relationships, Canada and the United States speak in 1961 in terms of unity. We do not seek the unanimity that comes to those who water down all issues to the lowest common denominator--or to those who conceal their differences behind fixed smiles--or to those who measure unity by standards of popularity and affection, instead of trust and respect. We are allies. This is a partnership, not an empire. We are bound to have differences and disappointments--and we are equally bound to bring them out into the open, to settle them where they can be settled, and to respect each other's views when they cannot be settled.
And that is how it stood until 11 days ago.
SURE LET'S GET THIS DONE RIGHT AWAY:
The Donald Trump wants Canada as 51st state, right?!?
Canada has 40 million people which is More than California.
If Canada joined US, it'd get 46-47 House seats.
Canadians supported Kamala over Trump - 60% to 21%.
If Canada joined US, the presidency and the House would be DEEP BLUE.
Or is this just another statement I shouldn't be taking literally?
Oh, I get in now. The Donald was really saying...um, um...a territory, yeah that's the ticket....a territory yes a territory. He doesn't want the Canadians citizens. He just wants Canada.
JUST ANOTHER FAILURE:
The Donald's tariffs will be just as successful as Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, Trump Shuttle, Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Mortgage, Trump University, Trump Foundation, Trump Entertainment Resorts, Trump Shuttle,Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts & GoTrump.com
With these failures he left banks & small business people holding the bag just like his tariffs will do to American citizens.
YOU VOTED FROM HIM, YOU GOT HIM:
The Donald received about 43% of the Latino voting block. He has revoked TPS (Temporary Protected Status) affecting over 350,000 Venezuelans. The policy shielded beneficiaries from deportation & makes them eligible for work permits.
Those who TPS protections lapsed will lose their ability to work in the US & "will be" deported. There are drafted plans to revoke the legal status of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans & Venezuelans. I'm pretty sure Jamaicans are included but weren't mentioned.
Get ready to say Adios to your family members & if want to blame someone, look in the mirror.
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