Trump ‘made something snap in us’ – US-Canada ties frayed by tariff row
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qw9y94w2vo
Trump ‘made something snap in us’ – US-Canada ties frayed by tariff row
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qw9y94w2vo
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When a person you thought was a great friend betrays you for no reason, it’s hard to forgive.
Good. Don’t forget it. Also, don’t buy products from over here. Hold that grudge. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Watching Trump piss all over our closest allies has made something snap in many Americans too.
We can definitely understand your anger and even that you may no longer see the US as a reliable, trustworthy ally when Trump can so casually seriously damage our longstanding relationships with our friends and neighbors. And even threaten invasion. Wow.
At this point, I’m quite saddened and embarrassed, but also quite unsure what to do about it as our democratic leaders have gone into hiding.
Americans shit the bed overall, and now we (American who didn’t vote for this) all have to sleep in it until we find a way to clean ourselves off and start anew. I apologize, as a Florida man, to the rest of the world. Bongsmasher meant you no harm but only positive vibes
Canada’s having their own hard time with their economy, they didn’t need any help from a “friend” threatening to tag in. As far as most Americans go, most of us learned at a young age that you don’t kick somebody when they’re down. That’s a dick WWE move.
Imagine living next to a family in an apartment. You can hear the constant fights through the wall. Then you hear the man slap the woman and get violent. The next time the two of you talk, he decides to slap you too for no good reason. Threatens to rob you too and get you fired from your job.
Yeah, I think you’d be rolling up your sleeves and balling your fists too. You’d definitely be holding a grudge.
It’s not just the ‘tariff row’, it’s selling his entire country and all it’s assets to a madman with a chip on his shoulder. It’s his cruel attacks on every marginalized citizen and non-citizen in his reach. It’s his fucking face that is so goddamned disgusting. It’s him.
You’ve got to admit…he’s united a country. It’s just that it’s not our country and they’re now united against us
“In that country you will find two things: The best of the world and the worst of the world.”
That whole video felt bad to watch but this guy’s quote really hits home. We are a crazy fucking country. I really hope that canadians understand that most of us do not want these tariffs to exist. Only a select few extremists who do not know how tariffs work would be insane enough to support these bullshit tariffs.
Trump encouraging American businesses to return their manufacturing to within the US is all fine and well. But his statements suggesting that Canada is “not a viable country” and that he intends to use “economic force” to take over Canada and make it a state are both insulting and an attack on Canada’s sovereignty.
That’s one step too far.
I personally cancelled a vacation to the US and intend to scrutinize labels closely to avoid buying anything from US companies for the foreseeable future. I have no personal hate for American citizens, but your elected leadership is really letting you down right now.
I’ve always loved the US. I have been on vacation many times. I have worked there a couple of times. But I honestly don’t know if I’d want to do it again.
I think the same shift has happened in Denmark. I feel it in myself.
Being called a bad ally and selfish because we won’t “give” the idiot Greenland – even if it was never ours to give. Being threatened with tariffs that would ruin our economy.
It’s soooo sooo far over the line.
Something HAS broken in our relationship. We’ll see how the next four years go. If he has already broken so much in less than a month, I’m really not sure where we’ll be in four years. And I’m really not sure it’ll be fixable.
My American husband is SO glad that 2024 was the year he got his Canadian citizenship. You’d have to pry his new passport from his cold, dead hands.
Ok listen……. It’s time for some real action.
If you want to stop this Trump agenda, go after the Heritage Foundation.
These are the people who are writing the executive orders Trump is signing. THEY are telling Trump what to do. Do you really think Trump is smart enough to pull this off?
These are the people who are keeping the Republican congress and ALL of the major news organizations in lock step. They fund the lawyers. They back the initiatives from Main Street to Wall Street.
Get educated and fight back. Look at their history. Learn what they did during the Regan Administration. Learn about Project 2025.
Protest the Heritage Foundation properties. Draw attention to their places of business. Boycott their financial interests. Make it toxic for businesses to do business with them or their members.
Stop them in local town halls. Protest their events. Make them unwelcome in public forums. Make their businesses unwelcome in the markets. Sue them. Sue their interests. Counter their proposals. Name their leaders and representatives as agents of Project 2025 in public.
Contact the media, encourage stories on them. Contact your congressional leaders and make your opinions about the foundation and project 2025 known. Keep posting and reposting the truth about the foundation on social
Media. Point out their hypocrisy. Their hate. Their agenda. Their ambitions.
Tell your family, friends and kids about their evils. Demand that your clergy cut ties with them. Tell anyone who will listen what their real agenda is.
When Project 2025 initiatives make a mistake, be sure to tag the heritage Foundation. Tag their business interests. Tag the public leaders of those businesses. Point those mistakes out to your friends and family. Your neighbors. Anyone who will listen.
I am NOT advocating nasty or even illegal exposure tactics. I am NOT advocating false accusations. I am simply advocating making their business known to the public. Shining a spotlight on into the shadows.
It’s time to face the real enemy. Go after them. If they falter, the Trump agenda will falter right behind them and we will be one step closer to fixing this mess in the midterms.
Donald Trump made me into a Canada First *federalist*. I voted yes in ‘95, I’ve always been Bleu at heart. That’s how much Donald fucked up.
Yeah we’re pissed off- even the Québécois are riled. It wasn’t just the tariffs, it was the repeated threats of annexation and the weird way his mouth looks like an anus.
It‘s not Trump only.
Trump and all his cultists who immediately talked shit about Canada.
Might be the fact that every 4 years the whole world has to watch if the elected Dr. Jekyll turns into Mr. Hyde.
I’m am an American and I’m rooting for Canada… feel free to tariff us. Someone has to teach him a lesson, stop giving in and challenge the bully, I’m ready to accept the price.
This is, of course, the plan. The US, EU (with the UK in it), Canada and a lot of other powers were a hand-in-hand “liberal hegemony” and Russia had no power and no influence.
Now the US is ripped in half, with either its democracy in tatters or people’s faith in its democracy in tatters, depending on what exactly you believe, the US is at odds with Canada, Mexico, the EU, and others, while the EU has lost a major member already through Brexit, and efforts are now in full swing to influence elections in Germany and others to support parties that promote isolationism and division.
I mean you have to wonder if fighting the war in Ukraine so badly isn’t just a way to undermine suspicion. I mean I don’t want to suggest that Mr P is such a brilliant strategist and tactician, but maybe the idea that he’s not all that great is, in fact, execution of a brilliant tactic.
Trump told people what he would do.
There are enough voters that want these things in the USA that the country can never be trusted as an ally again.
Every four years there’s a good chance that the country will vote someone like Trump as the president that there’s no way to make long term alliances with USA again.
The whole “US subsidies Canada” and he says some wild amount seems like a typical trump lie
He’s toying with people’s lives and calling it a negotiation tactic, over the pettiest shit imaginable, and its americas supposed ally. Nah, they’ve shown was Canada means to them, especially with the garbage jd Vance has posted on xitter (basically “oh wah Canadians died fighting for us, but what have you done for us lately, pay up bitch”).
When your closest “ally” turns out to just want to annex you it’s pretty hard to think of the as an ally anymore
It was the 51st state comments. We may have been able to get over the tariffs at some point, but that is totally unforgivable. Even worse that almost nobody, including the ‘liberal’ media could see how offensive it is. Just yammering about the tariffs.
I used to spend thousands every year going to hot rod events in Washington state. Never again. I’ll never set foot in the US and I will do my best to never purchase another American product.
I have always hated war. Never seen the point of it. Always said if there was a draft I would either hide or go to prison. I never understood how men joined the army for the world wars or how Canadians left to protect Ukraine.
The first mention of us becoming 51, something inside me clicked. I will die for this country before we ever become a part of America.
I liked America. Been on countless road trips. We visit almost monthly for day trips. Now I have absolutely no desire to return.
It’s one thing having a trade war. Fine, that’s politics.
America declared that they intend to take over Canada. That’s only a few levels below declaring war. You don’t come back from that. Fuck you forever America.
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