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I could see one of those going bankrupt and gone within the decade without any other company picking them up. Probably Ford. At least GM has EV development on par to the best of the best in the world, which now would be from China. I read somewheres that GM has 800V platform ready to go in China but will not release that here in North America for various reasons. But in the long term of things concerning the global temperature around the US and how it conducts itself on the world stage, and from within, I dont think that an 800V platform will protect GM from the inevitable downfall that is to come BECAUSE of what is happening. Ford started this stackable EV platform network thing just a tad too late. I dont think Ford makes the cut. The F-150 has gotten to be too expensive for an average Joe to buy that if and when the US economy collapses, F-150 sales will mean jack shyte. Its only in North America where full sized pick-ups mean a damned thing. I dont think when the US economy has tanked that full sized pick up truck sales will be all that important to any OEM. Lets say Canada drops its Chinese EV tariffs and China floods the Canadian market and Canadians just outright gorges on Chinese EVs, the sales from Canada that GM and Ford make will be DEVASTATING to Detroit. Ouur GM and Ford factories will close for sure. But...the SUPPLY chains will also falter for GM and Ford from Canada... Maybe Canada brokers a deal for Chinese OEMs to take over former GM and Ford factories? Maybe Chinese OEMs construct new ones? Maybe China says no to that. Canada could also go to Stellantis and Mercedes/BMW/VAG and possiby Peugeot/Renault? Mexico and Canada do not have tariffs on cars being built in Canada or Mexico... This is a mess ANYWAY you slices it.

On another note... The Toronto Blue Jays are getting their asses kicked by the Mariners. Game is still on and the MAriners are winning 10-3 bottom of the 7th. Not a pretty site. As much as I am all about Elbows up and would have liked to see the Blue Jays kick some Yankee ass, which they did, literally kick Yankee ass En Espagnol As a Montrealer, and an Expos fan, I can also find some joy in this ass kicking on the Blue Jays. The song is catchy as phoque!!! Go Blue Jays! Oh... Lets plug something about Montreal to change the vibe. Like I promised. Proud to be from Montreal!

Maybe the cheery song might take the sting out of your reality of how shytty your country has become...

Urban hiking in Montreal is awesome. Lots of locals bitch about our bike paths. And to a certain degree, they would be correct as bike paths have taken over. And as an automobilist in Montreal...yeah. BUT...what most automobilists in Montreal have failed to realize that the people, the young families that CHOSE to ACTUALLY LIVE in the city centers ENJOY those bike paths. The safety and the ease of biking anywheres in the city centers with their KIDS enjoying the OUTDOORS. Montreal was ALWAYS a walkable city until the cars invaded. The walkable and bike-able paths fought back to re-acquire what was rightfully theirs before the automobile made its appearance. And this is not even on the mountain. The mountain has its own natural preserved beauty. This is in Anjou. A burrough to the north east of the island.

OK...the first post that Ill make to turn it around. Montreal has allocated I dont know how many more billions to fix the Olympic Stadium's roof once again. It is cheaper to spend billions than to tear it down. And at this point, the Olympic Stadium, for better or worse, symbolises Montreal. The architecture that is both beautiful and unique but arrogant and self serving and corrupt. This stadium is part of Montreal's fabric whether we as Montrealers like it or not. So might as well embrace it. Love it and live with it. Show case it the way we showcase other Montreal beauty. It is the start of the renovation project. Beautiful photography. Enjoy.

Montreal is cool. But all the enlightened Americans know that already. Its useless for me to state how wonderful Montreal is, its to deaf ears. Why? Miserable Americans themselves do not know how cool their own country USED to be. When America actually meant for something, let alone for them to give a shyte about Montreal. My life is great. Thanks for the encouragement. Nobody on here (certain posters) gives a shyte for that though. So...they get a dose of American reality instead. Believe me, I know how lucky I am to be living where I am. Montreal has got its problems. We are on civic elections shortly and the shortcomings of Montreal, and the Province itself (language laws again) is front and center which will spill unto the Provincial elections next year. Or the next. I now MORE about American politics at this juncture than of my own backyard... Canadians are rallying ALL by themselves to boycott ANYTHING America. It is quite the contrast of decades past to where Canadians are THAT much united. However, Quebec politics of language and Quebec culture and the protection of has crept in in these elections and are about to open old wounds DESPITE how much Quebecois are united with the rest of Canada. Our politicians. whether its Maple Maga, or Quebec culture protectionists, or Albertan, play by the Trump political playbook...

Make that book with me riding on Pegasus holding the lifeless head of Charlie Kirk as a stand in for Medusa flying high right beside Trump (as a stand in for the windmill and the Kraken) and dead Charlie's stare is turning the Maga world into stone and you got me.

There are no imaginary beasts with that dude you just quoted. The windmills are real with him and the other dude form Saint Louis. Sorry that you are in the crosshairs.

Feel free to add your opinions on Canada lifting the tariff on Chinese EVs. You too, could tell me, since I want Chinese EVs to enter Canada how Chinese EVs suck. Feel free to change your avatar to one that says Canada = 51st...

Yup. And this would be PART of my anger. As I also see no phoquing end to it. This is MY frustration as well. I LOVE the US. It may not look like it now, but I am DEEPLY hurt by YOUR countrymen. Because I see no end to it I am LASHING out loudly. Its mostly about cars anyway... Canada is just about to decide on what will happen to Chinese EVs and the tariffs Canada has on them. China will then lift the canola oil tariffs and then new trade talks will begin starting a whole other trade war between the US and the world... Its all related... The gun safety stuff? Well...that is not politics. That is just news.

Yup. And Canada is on the precipice of actually de-coupling from the US and the Big 2 and a half. Which will spell danger on the behalf of MORE Americans. Canada will try to broker deals with other car makers if China does not want to come here to BUILD cars and only sell them. Other countries WANT to make trade deals with Canada. The hurt will be at a minimum as much as it can. 120 plus years of US/Canada car building there. But it is Americans that have DECIDED on this way forward. Yeah...it sucks. But I am happy to where you and I could tease one another. You personally David. And it happens to be against Seattle. Your hometown. So that is friendly fire from you to me and vice versa. But...MLB is mostly American players so...phoque them... However, many are from Latin America too that lay in the MLB. Something something about immigration policies across the US...

And HOW will you, the citizens of America, REVERSE that trend?

I am not trolling. I am stating my feelings. And they are REAl. And I honestly DO think your country is useless at this point in time. Does @ccap41 actually want the annexation of Canada? YOUR president HAS threatened Canada. YOUR president REPRESENTS ALL of the US. YOUR country has levied tariffs on Canada and the while LYING about the reasons. YOUR citizens are CLUELESS and INDIFFERENT to what happens to not only my country with these tariffs, but to yours too but @ccap41 is peeved because I express my anger towards your shytty country? Listen @G. David Felt My feelings are warranted towards YOUR country. Tell me to stop. Ill stop. But do NOT tell me I am trolling. I am posting NEWS about your country with MY honest feelings towards the reality of it all. If I piss off any American feeling because reality is a bitch... oh well... But do NOT tell me I am trolling. I am not. Its all sincere. And... There was a discussion about guns and safety. I shout at the top of Mount Rainier how Americans continue to kill each other with guns. I say its because Americans are too dumb, too selfish, too cavalier to own guns and somehow that is far from reality? Two more public shootings happened in two different areas of your country on TOP of all the fascist directions your government is taking... Listen @G. David Felt I know your country is going through rough times. But fight for it. YOU guys ALONE caused it. Why do I PERSIST in SHOVING IT IN YOUR FACE!!! Because YOU need to HEAR it so you could FIGHT for your rights and freedoms. Direct your annoyance of me to where it NEEDS to be directed. And when will that be? When will you STOP as a people, pointing the gun at your fellow American and start using your voice and power of the people to STOP the lunacy? By trolling ME with 51st state pics on the web? I post burning of the American flag to make YOU rage AGAINST what is keeping YOUR freedoms away from you. It is NOT ME that is doing that to you. Its your president with his 1% rich folk. You are angry at me? HA! Be angry at who is doing this to you and DO something about it!!!

Yet you, or @ccap41 expects me or any other Canadian to fight for you? To defend YOUR shytty decisions on voting for Trump, for YOUR right NOT to fight for your country? Why is ANY American getting offended by any Canadian mocking your shytty country and LETTING it be known that its OVER on OUR side BECAUSE America itself CHOSE for the relationship to be over between Canada and the US? Is it because Canada didnt ask America's permission? Is it because American's (@ccap) ego is fragile? @ccap41 or ANYBODY else has to face the music whether it comes from a Canadian or not, and they HAVE to accept it whether they like it or not. @A Horse With No Name you choose not to fight for your country. It is your right to do so. @ccap41 could decide to fight for his country by parroting a fascist and trolling. It is his right to do so. But it is MY right to shove REALITY in YOUR faces. It is MY right to fight for MY country as however I wish. And if I feel EXTREME hatred towards your damned upside down country...oh well. Keep in mind it is a war started by YOU guys... Even if some of you were robbed of knowing the truth. Well, here is the truth. Suck on it for awhile.

But my temper tantrums are a result DIRECTLY from American propaganda DESIGNED to do harm on MY country. @ccap41 is trolling. And is a DIRECT threat to MY country. All I am doing is just presenting real incidents on what the NEW US reality is. And like I said, you cant blame me for the hatred. @ccap41 is just a child that cannot face reality. Oh well. Good luck with your fascist reality.

Still am. Unfortunately though, many Americans, in BLUE states, blue states on the BORDER of US and Canada, INCLUDING New York AND Michigan, but we will stick to Michigan since I agree, we must put other politics away of it does NOT pertain to the automobile industry... Michiganders WORKING at GM, Ford and Chrysler factories, most of these factory workers have BOUGHT INTO the rhetoric that Canada is bad. So...Ill adopt Chinese EVs. Its for the GREATER good for MY country. Like I stated before, with friends like Americans, who needs enemies? Ill take my chances with the Chinese. And Chinese EVs in 2025 are on par, or maybe even better than, anything that comes out of Detroit.

Understandable. I aint asking you to hate your country. I AM asking you though to FIGHT for your country. You cant blame me for hating on your country. If any American cannot see why Canadians are choosing hate for the US, well, it makes Canadians hate on America even MORE...

Who knows what is real or fake with this administration? What is real though, whether ICE agents and National Guard troops are quelling domestic criminal violence or not, and whether American citizens are 'peacefully' protesting or not, reality is that Americans are living under military rule no matter how you slice it. And more cities to come under military watch whether Americans protesting peacefully or not. Peaceful protest? The National Guard is still there watching every move innocent Americans are making. ICE agents are using force to eliminate, in a literal sense, using deadly force on other human beings whether illegally there or not. All the while, innocent American citizens are STILL being intimidated by all this whether or not food is accessible to ICE agents/national Guard. And innocent Americans are in way, next in line to be eliminated if they do not comply... Use gun violence to riot? Marshal law. Which will probably lead to killings of all kinds in the streets. This administration has got you people coming AND going...

@ccap41 I guess when American troops cross our border to try to annex Canada all we have to do is to close all access to food? I guess this guy WAS right after all... Real hard to do though... Your society is addicted to that shyte The jokes just write themselves while STILL stating TRUTH... @ccap41 Are you still mad at me poking fun of your useless country? You know why your trolling does not bother me? Because its just that...trolling. With FAKE rhetoric. In my case denouncing YOUR dumb ass country...well...reality must be a bitch to face it.

Canadians love to live free. Americans are subordinate phoques. Canada is truly the land OF the free. True north STRONG and free. God bless America You phoques will need ALL the divine intervention from ALL religions to help you!!!

Anything better than American garbage. Your industry will disappear if and when Canada decides to let in Chinese EVs. Canada could produce them saving Canadian jobs while yet another industry will disappear from the US and then you phoques will resort to more violence killing yourselves to death. That is why Canada will never become the 51st state. There will be nothing left of the US... With friends like Americans, who the phoque needs enemies... Besides, China would make for a better ally. The irony.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-chicago-ice-raids-south-side-apartments-rcna236549 As federal agents swarm American cities on the orders of President Donald Trump, it’s getting harder and harder to tell “law enforcement” from the criminals they claim to protect us from. In just the past two weeks, in Chicago alone, it’s all too easy to find accounts and videos of federal immigration authorities committing wanton violence rather than serving the public. On the city’s South Side, an apartment building was stormed in a late-night, military-style raid, with dozens of residents dragged indiscriminately from their beds and homes. Witnesses said they saw children separated from their parents and restrained by zip ties. (Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin denied this, calling it “a shameful and disgusting lie.”) At Humboldt Park Hospital, Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes was manhandled and handcuffed by federal agents in civilian clothing for the “crime” of asking them to produce a judicial warrant. Video of the incident clearly shows that Fuentes remained calm, neither touching nor hampering the agents.