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Former President Donald Trump's United States of America

Finally....

Doug Ford welcomes Joe Biden’s election after souring on Donald Trump

From link.

Doug Ford was once one of the more prominent backers of Donald Trump in Canadian politics.

Now, the Ontario premier can’t wait to see the back of the defeated U.S. president, who lost last week’s election to former vice-president Joe Biden.

“I want to congratulate president-elect Biden and I look forward to working with anyone who has the best interests of Canadians and Ontarians at heart,” Ford told reporters Monday in Woodbridge.

“It was a real slap in the face when President Trump cut us off to the PPEs,” the premier said of a threatened embargo last April on key personal protective equipment, like 3M N95 masks, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I don’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat. We expect a good relationship and really focus on the economics. Ontario alone is United States’ third-largest trading partner in the world,” said Ford, who also railed against Trump’s trade-war salvos last summer.

“We need to be treated like the third-largest trading partner in the world. I don’t expect any tariffs and aluminum tariffs and anything else. Let’s work together.”

Trump’s July warning that he was considering levies on Canadian aluminum would have hurt Ontario companies.

“Full disclosure: I love the people in the U.S. We’re very fortunate to have a great country beside us and I just want the people of Canada, Ontario, to get the same respect from American leadership that we give,” said Ford, who ran a division of his family’s label business in Chicago for many years.

“If someone comes after our country, someone comes after our province, I’m going to go after them like a lion. What I want is a mutually rewarding relationship between ourselves and the U.S.”

Ford has had a decided change of heart on Trump since his Progressive Conservatives took office in June 2018.

In November 2016, he told Toronto Life there was “not a doubt in my mind” he would voted for Trump, whose sloganeering populism echoed the rhetoric of his so-called Ford Nation base.

Less than a year and a half later, in April 2018, Ford suggested Trump’s shtick may have been inspired by his family, including his late brother, Rob Ford, the controversial former Toronto mayor.

“We were around a lot longer than Donald Trump. And as much as the media’s trying to play on this, people realize the Fords have been in public service for 25 years helping people and ... there’s not even a comparison,” he said.

But Trump’s erratic response to the pandemic finally soured the premier on the president.

In September, during a wide-ranging discussion at the Ryerson Democracy Forum hosted by Star columnist Martin Regg Cohn, Ford reminded the audience how Canadians rallied to help Americans after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

“I still can’t get over it. Yes, he’s not on my Christmas card list. I’m ticked off at him,” he said of the president.

When a Ryerson student suggested Ford was like Trump, the premier snickered.
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“Boy, that was a real slap calling me Donald Trump. I’m anything but Donald Trump,” he said.

On Monday, Ford — who has worked closely with Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her Republican predecessor, Rick Snyder, both of whom endorsed Biden — said he is hopeful relations with the U.S. improve under the new president.

“Let’s work together. It’s going to be beneficial for all sides of the border.”
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AlvinofDiaspar said:
They were already souring on Fox during election night when they called AZ (rightly or wrongly) for Biden. Guess Murdoch follow the way the wind blows.

AoD
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Fox News Decision Desk is one of the best. The lead for it is a Democrat. People forget that Fox News does actually have good news bits. The shitshow is on the opinion side.
 
kEiThZ said:
Fox News Decision Desk is one of the best. The lead for it is a Democrat. People forget that Fox News does actually have good news bits. The shitshow is on the opinion side.
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Then people like Hannity or Carlson should leave and move to more Conservative media like Breitbart or OANN.
 
Coolstar said:
Then people like Hannity or Carlson should leave and move to more Conservative media like Breitbart or OANN.
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Better yet, they should form their own news channel. They could call it Patriot News Network for all I care, completely covered in bald eagles, apple pies, and bluegrass music playing throughout like any good American.
 
Johnny Au said:
Better yet, they should form their own news channel. They could call it Patriot News Network for all I care, completely covered in bald eagles, apple pies, and bluegrass music playing throughout like any good American.
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Naw, bluegrass is too "Dem". Lee Greenwood and Toby Keith is more their thing.
 
And aside from broadcast media, when it comes to *social* media, they're already flocking from too-censorious Twitter to Parler.

www.newsweek.com

Parler tops app store charts as conservatives flock to site after Biden victory over Trump

As conservatives reel from Trump's defeat, well-followed users on Twitter have appealed for readers to sign up to Parler—and it appears some users are listening, as app downloads spike.
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With, uh, "consequences"--even if freedom of speech emboldens one, one can't hide

www.cnn.com

Arkansas police chief resigns after calling for violence against Democrats

An Arkansas police chief who posted calls for violence against Democrats on social media resigned from his job on Saturday.
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