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Rodney Ricker retweeted
🇺🇸🇨🇦Canada just dumped U.S. cars. Americans got the bill.
Yes, the tariffs Trump imposed on the auto sector are taking a toll.
But the biggest victim of this policy is found south of the 49th parallel, according to a report by Fortune magazine.
Their main customer, Canada, is gradually turning away from them.
From 2021 to 2025, about 40% of new vehicles sold in Canada were U.S.-built.
When Trump launched his trade war in 2025, that share dropped to 35.4% during the first six months.
And this year, during that same period, that share fell to 28.4%!
A loss of some 12 percentage points in market share in just a year and a half...
And the Canadian market is so vital to the United States that it outweighs the next ten largest markets combined.
This decrease in sales, compounded by the tariffs, inevitably impacts vehicle prices and jobs.
A vehicle hit from all sides by tariffs on its many Canadian-made components can cost an average of $6,000 more.
With lower sales come lower production levels and a reduced need for staff.
Consequently, since Trump took office, 75,000 manufacturing jobs have vanished, including 25,900 in the automotive sector.
Impact on Trump
Is Trump aware of these figures? Is he being shielded from them? And even if he did know, would he take them into account?
One can assume not, given that since day one of his presidency, almost every decision he has made has disadvantaged the average American—and undermined the United States' standing as a global power. One might quibble over his motives for acting against his country's interests, but not over the negative impact of his choices.
And yet, I ask you: are Americans aware that their president is working against them?
(Information gathered from the Fortune article in the second post.) 1/2
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Rodney Ricker retweeted
Millions of 3-year-old laptops get blamed for being "slow" when the hardware is barely the problem — it's almost always what's silently running underneath.
A student was about to spend $900 on a brand new laptop because hers took 4 minutes to boot and constantly froze mid-assignment, right when deadlines mattered most.
Her older brother, who builds PCs on the side and has fixed dozens of laptops for friends, sat down with her laptop for 8 minutes on a Sunday afternoon.
He didn't reinstall Windows.
Didn't add RAM.
Didn't recommend an SSD upgrade.
Didn't suggest buying anything at all.
He changed 8 settings.
Boot time dropped from 4 minutes to 20 seconds. Chrome stopped eating 90% of her CPU in the background. Word stopped freezing mid-sentence while she typed.
Same laptop. Same specs. Same age. Same everything.
"Your laptop was never actually slow. It was just never cleaned up past the day you bought it — and nobody, not the store, not Microsoft, not tech support, was ever going to tell you the fix was free."
🧵 Here are the 8 settings he changed:
Rodney Ricker retweeted
François-Philippe Champagne: I remind our colleagues down south that we buy more from the U.S. than China, Japan, and the U.K. combined. We're their biggest customer.
I met with my colleagues from Europe. The German minister, the Turkish minister, the Irish minister. Listen, everyone wants to meet with Canada these days because they understand that the most sought-after commodity today is trust.
Rodney Ricker retweeted
This is absolutely the very best video I have seen in days. You nailed everything. (And if I heard right, your taxidermy skills are second to no one 😂👍) 👊👊👊🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦😂
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In Canada’s right of centre online commentariat, @Harry__Faulkner is a brave, independent, and patriotic voice.
He consistently calls out the knee jerk Blame Canada obsession of the alt right “influencer” mob, and brings receipts. He does it professionally and thoughtfully, a model for how independent conservative oriented media can operate.
If Canada’s conservative movement is going to regain its footing as both principled and popular, we’ll need more sensible, patriotic voices like Harrison’s.
Rodney Ricker retweeted
Trump Admits Adding Late Changes to Trade Deal, Further Discrediting His Misguided Defenders in Canada.
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Maybe this makes today's swirl of insults and name calling make sense.
It was on this day, 212 years ago, August 24, 1814, that British forces burned Washington, including the White House, during the war of 1812. It was retaliation for the Americans sacking Toronto in 1813.
Rodney Ricker retweeted
Maga won't fact check this, they don't care... but Occupy Democrats did! In response, PM Carney announced that Canada is pivoting its trade strategy toward Europe, entering intense negotiations w/the European Union to build deeper economic& security ties independent of the US
Rodney Ricker retweeted
To people wondering what’s going on with the Conservative Party on Trump, tariffs, etc, look at the bottom line of this survey.
Half of Conservative voters are radically out of step with super majorities of the broader public in every region.
And they are by far the more voluble half.
Amongst very engaged CPC activists (ie party members, donors, people who show up at events, talk to their MPs) the gap with broader public sentiment would be even larger. I suspect something like 3/4 of that cohort are inclined to believe that Canada is more to blame for this conflict than the Trump Administration..
For those who are online, this asymmetry is even greater, with an echo chamber of alt right “influencers” recycling pro MAGA views in a never ending cycle of monetizing anger.
We’ve seen similar phenomena with Covid, Ukraine, Alberta separatism, etc.
So when you see CPC MPs issuing statements that don’t even mention the US Administration’s provocations and aggression, this is what’s going on. They are typically hearing from a small fraction of the public, the folks they know best and sympathize with most.
In this context, Mr. Poilievre deserves great credit for his excellent statement yesterday.
Rodney Ricker retweeted
I’m a Canadian 🇨🇦 and I will never step foot in the USA while this administration is in office. Retweet and proudly Raise Your Hand ✋if you’re not traveling to America anytime soon.
Rodney Ricker retweeted
Canada’s boreal forest — the source of much of the wildfire smoke drifting into the U.S. — isn’t like our managed forests in the lower 48.
It’s the largest intact forest ecosystem on Earth: roughly 1.3 billion acres (about 78 times larger than Alaska’s Tongass, our biggest national forest, and 7 times larger than all 154 U.S. National Forests combined). It stretches in an almost continuous belt from the Yukon to Newfoundland.
Why can’t they just do controlled burns like we do here?
Because most of it is remote, roadless wilderness.
• Less than 9% of Canada’s population lives in the boreal region.
• Less than 1% of the forest itself is developed.
• Vast areas have no roads and are only accessible by aircraft or winter roads.
You can’t send crews in to do prescribed burns across a billion+ acres of inaccessible terrain the way we can in populated areas near roads and communities in the U.S. Wildfire has been nature’s primary management tool in these ecosystems for thousands of years.
Smoke reaching the Northeast isn’t new either. It happened in 1950, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2025, and now 2026. Weather (especially upper-level wind patterns) determines where the smoke goes, not just where the fires are burning.
Blaming Canada’s government for “not controlling” these fires is political theater. The scale and inaccessibility make large-scale suppression or prevention across that wilderness fundamentally different — and in many places, practically impossible — from managing forests near U.S. population centers.
Nature runs that forest. Politicians don’t. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.
Corn going in to beautiful cover crop of hairy vetch and clover on a day when conventional guys can’t move👍❤️
Rodney Ricker retweeted
‼️HOLY CRAP - CANADIAN PREMIER ESCALATES FIGHT WITH THE USA
"Maybe we should up the ante -- make them release the Epstein files for us to lift the booze ban"
"The President is mentioned a huge amount of times in the Epstein files...... They want to talk tough?"
Rodney Ricker retweeted
NEW: Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area.
"If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation. 26 million doesn't mean anything."
"As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me, as long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing that can destroy me if I've got this land."
Video: Local 12 WKRC
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Rodney Ricker retweeted
It took me 4 years to understand this; but I will teach in just 2 minutes:
#1. Don't go to a party you aren't invited to.
