After announcing retaliatory tariffs against the U.S., Prime Minister Trudeau delivered a message to the American people.
  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 days ago

    We get it. By all means, Trudeau, bring the pain. Show America there are consequences. If you don’t, this will happen again. And again. And again.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 days ago

    If Trump backs down on the tariffs, Canada should only back down halfway. Make it clear there are permanent consequences every time he fucks with the world economy on a whim.

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          I meant to write optimal, sorry.

          The problem with trying to sway the GOP is that right now each one of them is about as charming as a poultry farm, and you need some charisma to build an oppositional faction within the party. If you were talking about a Schwarzenegger-led “normalcy” caucus we’d be cooking, but the current rogue’s gallery is as dull as dishwater and half as palatable.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 days ago

    The Americans chose, or allowed their opponents to choose him. The voters own all of the next 4 years.

    But yes, when was the last time inaction in protest worked?

      • then_three_more@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 days ago

        They’ll have an election. You just won’t be allowed to vote against the glorious leader.

        Or a marginally less cynical take, targeted voter surpression will mean that only republicans get elected president. So in four years they’ll get president Vance.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    If we’re truly a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” then we did it to ourselves.

    If we’re not that then we should “dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another”

    • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
      0·
      5 days ago

      It’s not about republicans, democrats, left or right anymore. It’s all Americans. As a Canadian I don’t see the difference anymore, your entire country is now an enemy

      • Bo7a@lemmy.ca
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        5 days ago

        As another Canadian, I’d like to say that this dude does not speak for us all. We understand the cancer you’re dealing with. Our tumors are smaller and less likely to metastasize but they are still there festering trying to eat their way to the surface.

        • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          We’re a different kind of Canadian, i mean i hate the Canadian government too but I’m of native blood so nothing you guys say is gonna make me see Americans as a whole favourably, you may say “don’t generalize” but we all do it, including you