Retired oilfield, caretaker of a small herd of black fall calvers, Olds College grad 84-86.
Bender, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Michael Santo retweeted
Trump didn’t wreck Canada. He just showed up with a bullhorn and started reading the fucking damage report out loud.
That’s why they hate him.
Canada spent years choking its own energy sector, underfunding its military, bloating its welfare state, and importing huge population growth while pretending all of it would somehow make the country stronger. Meanwhile it sits on the fifth-largest oil and natural-gas reserves on Earth, piles of timber, metals, minerals, and direct access to the richest market on the planet. Most countries would kill for that hand.
Ottawa played it like a drunk at a blackjack table.
Then Trump started laughing.
He mocked the dependency. He hammered NATO freeloading. He pointed at trade. He jabbed at Canada’s reliance on the American market and American defense. Mark Carney can wrap himself in the maple leaf and sneer at Trump all he wants. The numbers still sit there like a goddamn corpse nobody can hide.
America became the world’s largest oil and gas producer. Its tech companies dominate. Its GDP pulled roughly $10 trillion ahead of either China or the EU. Washington started rebuilding military power while Canada kept clinging to the same stale European crap that helped produce weak growth and weaker leverage.
That’s the humiliation.
Trump walks into the room, points at the wreckage, and says, “Look at this shit.”
Canadian elites scream about his tone because his tone is easier to attack than the record.
He’s rude. He’s obnoxious. He trolls the living hell out of them.
And every time he does, he forces the same ugly question back onto the table:
How the hell did a country with this many advantages manage to make itself this dependent?
(article below)
Michael Santo retweeted
One of the all-time great Rock Hall moments: Dolly’s “Jolene” with Rob Halford (Judas Priest), Pat Benatar, Annie Lennox, Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran), Pink, and Sheryl Crow. Zac Brown Band held it down as the house band.
Rest easy, Dolly 🤘
Michael Santo retweeted
In 2007 I welcomed a muslim family into my home, in Regina, and rented my suite to their family. No one else would.
The first weeks were fun and interesting. We were learning each other's culture and faith. He 'let' his wife and daughter be 'free' in Canada. They didn't have to wear hijab.
Then I began to notice things in my part of the house moved slightly. Long story short, the wife had been secretly accessing my computer to contact her family because the husband would not allow her to talk to them.
Then I started to notice bruising on her and her daughter. Then a black eye. "C'est normale" she told me and no, don't call police. It would be worse for her if I did. She now had to wear hijab again.
I reached out to Open Door Society to help her. They seemed confused that I was telling them about the abuse. They offered no help.
Finally I gave a letter to her doctors, an arabic husband and wife team who she wasn't allowed to see without her husband present.
Very quickly after that, they moved. I found out later he had also stolen her and the children's passports.
He was an educated man and a black belt karate instructor.
At one point, he tried to assert to me, without admitting anything, that the law did not apply to what occurs within the home, only what is done in public.
He also was the one who told me, when I gave him a ride to work one day, that Muslim men were so 'hot', that they could not help themselves...
I never gave him anymore rides.
I had helped him find that job. Later he told me Canada was such a great country that he wasn't going to have to work anymore because the people at the mosque showed him how to get benefits.
I do not hate Muslims.
I hate the ideology dressed up as a religion that allows them to subjugate and beat their women while establishing Islam within other countries & cultures. That is essentially Islam's 'raison d'etre'. Also, religion doesn't threaten to kill you if you want to leave.
I hate that the ideology compels people to do horrific things (like honour killing) by threatening the fear of hellfire if they don't, especially the women. Those poor women live in fear of hadiths that claim she will go to eternal hell if a daughter shames the family and she does not carry out punishment.
I hate that the ideology teaches it is ok to tax, rape, torture and even murder people of other cultures and faiths. The United Kingdom Rape Gang Inquiry has shone a spotlight on this.
In 1979 Iran was a free country that mostly practiced Zorastrianism.
With the help of President Carter, it was colonized to Islam in a few years, and has tormented those people ever since. In January over 42,000 Iranian protesters were shot for trying to speak out.
Is this where we want to be in 10 years?
Not one word of this is untrue or spoken in 'hate'.
Saskatchewan has to take an honest look at whether it wants the things that are 'normal' in Islamic culture to become normal here.
Our government must be preemptive in analyzing and creating policy.
@PremierScottMoe you are in leadership at a historical turning point regarding what happens to this province. Please proceed wisely.
Michael Santo retweeted
WATCH In Japan Carney says Canada’s auto strategy still focussed on electric and his carbon credit scheme still on the table. Carney determines who gets to buy and sell in Canada. And Brookfield sells the credits. What could go wrong?
WATCH Stand on Guard pod: Are Canadians Blind or Just Stupid? | Stand on Guard (pod link below)
Are Canadians Blind or Just Stupid? | WATCH Stand on Guard xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1aJbdbkyN…
You might be a redneck if you use an old vehicle hood and spray paint so the courier can find your house to deliver your Amazon packages.
Michael Santo retweeted
Scott Bessent tells Sean Hannity that he was in the Oval Office with Donald Trump when Mark Carney called and walked back many of his Davos/China comments.
We don’t know Carney’s version because he because PMO doesn’t put out readouts of leader calls.
So in Saskatchewan, if the actual temperature doesn’t reach -40, is it still considered a cold snap?
Michael Santo retweeted
Canada Went to Beijing. The Loser Was Canada.
Carney’s China Pivot Is Really a Message to Washington.
Canada’s prime minister just flew to Beijing for the first time in eight years — and the headlines made it sound historic.
It wasn’t.
This video breaks down why Canada’s sudden China outreach wasn’t strategy, but desperation. We revisit the hostage diplomacy that poisoned trust, the tariff war that crushed Canadian farmers, and the so-called “deal” that looks impressive on paper but changes nothing in reality.
I’ll show you the numbers the headlines won’t: why China can’t replace the U.S., why this agreement is shallow and reversible, and why in today’s Cold War, trying to balance between Washington and Beijing only leaves you weaker.
Michael Santo retweeted
From @Ryan_r_Williams courtesy of Facebook:
Nutrien didn’t pick the U.S. because they wanted to.
They picked the U.S. because Canada made it too slow… too expensive… and too unpredictable to build here.
The U.S. made it easy.
That’s the whole story.
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Here are the facts:
1. Nutrien ran 30 criteria… the U.S. scored highest.
They compared rail rates, freight costs, construction costs, and regulatory risk.
Longview, Washington, outperformed every Canadian port.
2. Canada’s permitting system kills projects.
B.C. port approvals take 5–10 years with open-ended requirements.
In the U.S., the process runs on fixed timelines measured in months.
3. Canada’s West Coast has structural bottlenecks.
Vancouver’s North Shore depends on one rail bridge… a major choke point.
Longview has ready rail, a redeveloped berth, and immediate expansion capacity.
4. Transportation now costs more than mining.
Industry analysis shows shipping is the largest cost in potash.
So Nutrien built where logistics are cheaper and faster… and that isn’t Canada.
5. Labour, carbon policy, and regulation all push investment south.
The U.S. offers predictable labour, lower build costs, and no $170/tonne industrial carbon tax.
Investors follow certainty… Canada doesn’t offer it.
6. Governments reacted after the decision.
Ottawa and B.C. said they were “disappointed” after Nutrien picked Longview.
Saskatchewan reminded everyone this is the second potash terminal lost since 2016 because B.C.’s system is too slow.
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Bottom line:
Nutrien didn’t abandon Canada.
Canada’s policies pushed the investment out… and the U.S. simply opened the door.
If we can’t even secure a port for the resource we dominate globally…
What else are we willing to lose? Canadian potash company Nutrien to build terminal in U.S. and not B.C.
Globalnews.ca
globalnews.ca/news/11541746/…
