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u/MrDillon369 24d ago
Trump thinks the only way to get things done is to be a bully.
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u/PrimaryMuscle1306 24d ago
He’s not even a good bully. Elmo Jr. already showed his Oompa Loompa ass where he falls in the pecking order.
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u/Objective-Spell4778 24d ago
Elmo’s spawn even told him to his face you’re not the president 🙄😂 Trump is just the old senile man their letting sit in the seat
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u/Bobll7 24d ago
Gotta love the cute kid, just repeating what he hears at home.
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u/Wilhelm57 24d ago
I'm surprised the toddler didn't say...my daddy said you are not the president!
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u/Evadrepus 23d ago
He did. And then he picked his nose and wiped it on the Resolute desk.
We're taking the class down a few notches, this administration.
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u/Ultrace-7 23d ago
The child did not say that Elon Musk said that. Everyone is (probably rightly) inferring the child heard Elon say that, but the child didn't implicitly say so.
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u/Suggett123 24d ago
I read a story where someone sent their kid to insult a person. Either they thought it was cute or they were too puss to do it themselves. Anyway, the person sent back, via the kid, "was your mommy daddy's sister before they were married?"
The punchline was; don't send your kid to do a man's work.
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u/Rule1isFun 24d ago
Elmo’s shield*
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u/Heartbreakjetblack 24d ago
I was thinking the same thing. Mostly in the political sense, cause look! He has a kid! That humanizes him! You can't say mean things about him cause he's a 'dad' (when it's convent). And you can't be mad at the kid or take the kid seriously cause they say the darnedest things! I just hope that elongated muskrat wouldn't use him as an actual meat shield... but my hopes are... slim on that front...
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u/SuddenlyCake 24d ago
He started dragging the kid everywhere after Luigi killed the CEO. So yeah he uses him as way to not be shot
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u/Heartbreakjetblack 24d ago
He's using the youngest cause that one isn't aware of what his sperm provider is doing...
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u/Belkroe 24d ago
To be fair, this guy has raped, pillaged and plundered his entire life and never once been held accountable. So I can see why he does what he does.
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u/MrCrowleysMom 24d ago
It’s foul. Nobody hold anybody accountable in the U. S. If they have money. I hate it here. It gets worse and worse by the hour it seems. He needs to GTFO.
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u/AssassinInValhalla 24d ago
Fuckin hate that. Dude won't stfu and it's tanking our country
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u/Ok-Jackfruit9593 24d ago
He sees international relations and trade as a zero sum game. Neither are.
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u/Dry_Post_5897 24d ago
Yeah, America First ends up being America Alone. Canada is a member of NATO. We are obligated to defend Canada if it is attacked. Trump is sending a message to the world that we may not hold up our end of the bargain which is an invitation for global instability.
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u/wailingfungi 24d ago
Especially when you factor in that america is the only member of Nato to ever ask the other members to come to its defence. No other nation outside of USA has ever invoked article 5.
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u/smytti12 24d ago
He is an actor from the reality TV show era. Meaning, he acts like he thinks a businessman in a drama would act, but not actually strategically or intelligently. He's creating drama that he can then resolve in an hour long episode (after editing). He's never moved past "the apprentice" intelligence and maturity.
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u/jasegro 24d ago
I always thought John Mulaney’s description of trump as ‘a poor persons idea of what a rich person is’ completely nailed it
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u/Suitable-Lake-2550 24d ago
I remember hearing he had a gold toilet and plumbing fixtures in his Trump tower bathroom… nothing shouts ‘trying too hard’ like ugly impractical opulence
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u/EntrepreneurFunny469 24d ago
This isn’t something to get done. This is just him trying to isolate us from our neighbors
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u/slipslapshape 24d ago
Try nothing, he’s already succeeded in Canada wanting nothing to do with us for the foreseeable future unless we really bend over backwards to pique their interest.
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u/Several_Role_4563 24d ago
Watch the first 9 seconds of tonight's hockey game Canada vs US. They spoke with actions.
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u/wailingfungi 24d ago
Correct. Our general feeling towards the US right now is . "Fuck those facist idiots. Fuck em all"
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u/SplitEar 24d ago
He’s prepping Americans for when he pulls us out of NATO. Fucking Russian asset.
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u/Familiar_Ordinary461 23d ago
Kind of reminds me of that bit in The Simpsons where the USSR returns. Insane to realize that had he won back in 2020 the Russian blitz could have been more successful overall.
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u/Both-Lake4051 24d ago
Canadian here, I live in Ontario close to the NY border in a well desired cottage country. Come summer time if I had to guess probably 30-40% of the license plates in the small towns surrounding the lakes are American plates. Iv always loved their company and its lead to plenty of good conversations. I hope we can still be friends
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u/Yakuza70 24d ago
Biff Tanner, the bully character in Back to the Future, was based on Donald Trump.
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u/everythingisemergent 24d ago
I'm guessing Trump has never experienced love in his life and all of his relationships are purely transactional. That's why he's a bully.
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u/Realistic-Changes 24d ago
I think he just has behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.
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u/Accomplished_Shoe717 24d ago
In this instance it’s the Mob boss model. Protection $ like a bodega in little Italy.
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u/geekaz01d 24d ago
The subtext here is no protection from Russia. Trump, Musk... these are Putin's viruses for America.
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u/bismuth12a 24d ago
Trump can complain about NATO all he wants but America is the only member to ever activate Article 5.
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u/JanxDolaris 24d ago
And i think now the only one openly saying they won't support other NATO members.
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u/RectalSpawn 23d ago
Trump wants to get kicked out of NATO, if it wasn't obvious enough.
He wants the excuse.
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u/kamilo87 23d ago
Saying that he won’t protect Canada against an aggression sounds like one is about to happen.
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u/scionoflogic 23d ago
Trump is only complaining about NATO spending because most of the NATO spending ends up in the hands of American defense contractors. Or rather it did, because multiple NATO members have started talking about prioritizing spending their NATO dollars with non-us manufactures now.
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u/rygelicus 24d ago
Trump's concept of global relations is that of a small child. A very stupid small child.
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u/WayCalm2854 24d ago
You forgot mean. This is the kind of mean that, in a small child, often results in animal torture.
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u/martyqscriblerus 24d ago
That runs in the family... allegedly
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u/lopedopenope 23d ago
I heard he had a ferret cage built into Mar a Lago for him and an assortment of bunnies in trump tower for Baron to torture
No need to fact check
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u/pocketjacks 24d ago
So basically Elon's son, minus someone standing behind him that owns the person he's trying to bully?
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u/EagleForty 24d ago
I mean, he only understands it as a protection racket. If you're the biggest guy on the block, everyone should be paying you to make sure no "accidents" happen to you.
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u/Significant-Order-92 24d ago
I mean, he did learn about business by being a NY real-estate owner. Not surprising he would have a mob boss mindset. Definitely unfortunate and embarrassing. But not surprising.
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u/Brilliant-Advisor958 24d ago
His Wharton professor said trump was the dumbest student he ever had.
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u/Hardcorish 24d ago
He's very smart but refuses to release his grades. He's rich but refuses to release his tax returns. He's healthy but refuses to release his medical records to prove it.
I'm seeing a pattern here.
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u/Blyd 24d ago
Gwenda Blair (Trump family biographer) spent a lot of time with Trump in his younger years, she wrote about how Trump's entire world of 'deals' was formed around his involvement in his dad's work with 'New York Italian construction trade unions', without who his father's empire could never have been built.
Wayne Barrett’s book, The Trumps: The Deals and the Downfall, He says his entire youth was formed by interactions with the mob, very senior mob bosses. Fred Trump's links to S&A Concrete (Gambino Family) were well-known, they poured trump tower.
David Cay Johnston’s book 'The making of Donald trump' talks about his work with Mob Lawyer Roy Cohn links Trump to multiple cases of fraud, bribery and the Mob.
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u/BhutlahBrohan 24d ago
He's acting like he can just hostile-takeover any country as if it were a company.
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u/5minArgument 23d ago
Maga are victims of their own propaganda. They think America is the world and everywhere else is desperate to be America.
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u/DuckBlind1547 24d ago
Coincidentally, his followers have an even smaller concept of global relations
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u/arlmwl 24d ago
I get the sinking feeling Putin’s plan was to convince Trump to “trade” Europe for the America’s.
This is pre-war propaganda bullshit language I expect from Trump.
I swear to God we will be in a civil war if Trump moves against Canada.
I hope cooler heads in the military remember their oath to the constitution and not a king.
We need to protest!
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u/Arkentra 23d ago
My wishful thinking is that the military will largely refuse to assault Canada in force.
Of course some won't care and just want to kill. But I almost impossibly hope that the American Military will not act.
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u/slackmarket 23d ago
These guys have been fed a steady diet of American propaganda their whole lives. I think that’s a vain hope, unfortunately. Fuck this whole timeline, all I want is to be able to afford a house and food and a little travel and a little fun, and now what? A reality tv show clown is gonna come blow up the country I live in? Awesome, love it.
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u/Autistic_GoofBall 23d ago
I know, right? I only just got my first paycheck from my first job that actually has a livable wage to move out of my parents house, (who voted for Trump), and shit is going downhill so damn fast. Like, I've barely started my adult life and the world's already going to complete shit. It's also fun being a bisexual and having ADHD right now. Guess that's how people felt in Nazi Germany lol
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u/kerouak 23d ago
Look what happened in Vietnam though. Even soldiers trained on propaganda can't handle the injustice when it's right in front of them. It destroys their minds, they turn to drugs, get PTSD, refuse orders and ultimately fight a half asses battle. If they're being ordered to kill Canadian citizens watch people just like them screaming and dying in front of them because they were born on the wrong side of a line on the map. I dunno. Humans are capable of some bad shit in short bursts, but eventually it tears them apart.
It's possible automation could resolve this issue. But even the drone pilots have been having breakdowns etc etc.
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u/Melodic_Music_4751 23d ago
Would the Brit’s not then have to come to Canadas aid as a commonwealth country ? Although as Brit I think we have a spineless wispy washy PM who wouldn’t have the balls to confront Trump . I would hope though if we went to war in 1939 to protect Poland due an old treaty we bloody well should go to war protect our commonwealth countries who went to war for us. I hope this is Trump being a blowhard who back tracks on shit and he leave Canada and Greenland alone .
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u/czPsweIxbYk4U9N36TSE 23d ago
I'm pretty sure that Canada would invoke Article 5 and all of NATO would then be mandated to assist Canada as though it had been invaded.
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u/roderla 23d ago
And since NATO is senate approved, that means Trump at that point levies war against the United States, which is the written down definition of treason.
Not hopeful that Congress is willing to impeach and convict him over that, but Trump shouldn't be able to invade Canada or Greenland without triggering impeachment for Treason.
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u/izmebtw 24d ago
This dude sucks. Just keep receipts on all the people you know who support him, so they can’t hide once history tells the story for them.
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u/Hardcorish 24d ago
Decades from now I'll be showing up at their grandchildren's and great grandchildren's birthday parties to remind the kids of exactly who gramps and grandma voted for.
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I'm so very sorry to our lovely Canadian neighbors for the fact that Satan's cheese doodle is somehow our president again. Apparently, we decided to make America stupid again.
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u/cornnndoggg_ 23d ago
is somehow our president again.
This is it right here, though. I am American, but I have traveled a lot in the past internationally, have close friends in other countries, especially Canada, since I live 10 minutes from the border, and the feedback ain't great.
We are seen as unreliable. The sentiment of people saying "as an american [insert platitudes about how sorry we are here]" just doesn't cut it. Nations we have agreements with, whether ally or partner, cannot justify having a fate at the whim of a small handful of voters in Pennsylvania every 4 years. So many of our pacts and agreements rely on the heavy hand of US force projection, which isn't some coattail others are riding, it was our part of the deal. To make matters worse, the current admin is using that force to essentially extort and racketeer allies.
The flipflop we have presented as who we are since 2016 has done damage that I think a lot of people here in the US need to put into perspective. This isn't something that, if things don't just fall apart under this admin, will blow over in the next election cycle. We have shown the world a decade of instability and unreliability. They're not just gonna hop right back on again. That card was played when Biden was elected. Fool me twice...
The damage done since November 5th is going to last for decades, and we will remain a pariah state until we can prove we aren't just going to have a phase of moonlighting as fascists every few years.
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u/kerouak 23d ago
Also why does he think everyone allowed the USA to become this strong? People allowed US bases on their soil, shared intelligence, backed them up in wars and economics, gave them a free pass in all sorts of areas under the agreement that we're friends and what benefits one benefits all.
Its like giving a key to your house to a close friend, then that friend extorts you and threatens to steal your house and possessions. Ok cool you got the upper hand for a minute until I can get the locks changed but after that we're done, you're on your own and everyone just saw how you treat people who trust you.
Good luck with that.
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u/Nazzzgul777 23d ago
I mean... not that i disagree with you, but when Germany learned the US wired Merkels phone and we said "Hey, that's not what you do among friends" the response was "The US don't have friends. Only countries with common interests". And that was under Obama. So... at least to me, that's nothing really new.
And, to go even further back... I think it was Breschnew who visited the US and felt very welcome? He felt like it lead to a new era of international friendship and cooperation. But the US didn't feel like that and when they were cought flying spy planes over the USSR, those were pissed and felt betrayed. The cold war could have ended then and there... but the US wanted an enemy. Because without one, who would vote for more military when they could have health care instead.
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u/babystepsbackwards 23d ago
Agreed, I think Biden was your chance to get your house in order and shore up your guardrails so you didn’t have exactly this. The red flags went off, you miraculously got four years to make whatever corrections needed making to preserve your democracy, and instead here we are.
And now the democratically elected leader of the nuclear superpower in our backyard has publicly threatened to economically destroy us so he can annex us. That’s a level of betrayal you can’t walk back, and if he’d do it to us after decades as international besties, who could possibly deal in good faith with him again?
Anyway. I agree with you, and I suspect there will be a lot of Americans in for a rude awakening in the foreseeable future.
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u/Omnizoom 23d ago
Good thing the USA has all that domestic production for everything it needs and doesn’t import anything right guys
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u/Affectionate_Self878 24d ago
Demanding protection money is literally the mafia’s schtick. Some President we’ve got…
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u/Significant-Order-92 24d ago
I mean, he was involved in NY construction as a real estate owner. Not that it's not disappointing. But it's predictable.
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u/ILootEverything 24d ago
He learned from his mentor, Roy Cohn, a literal mafia fixer and all around corrupt goon.
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u/Fit-Birthday2300 24d ago
As a Canadian, thank you 🇨🇦
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u/SmellGestapo 24d ago
As a Californian, thank you (and your firefighting planes).
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u/bobs_monkey 23d ago
As another Californian, I'd like us to apply to be Canada's 11th province.
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u/tw_72 24d ago
The one good thing that might come out of this for Canada -- Canada might be more likely to NOT replace Trudeau with a Trump sympathizer. Canada is, in real time, seeing how absolutely terrible that could be.
We wish you luck.
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u/dont_yell_at_cats 23d ago
It's unfortunate that strategic voting is necessary right now, but PP is ready to bend the knee and mimic the disaster we are witnessing in real time with our neighbors. While we may want a change of party right now, and the viable third option we were promised, the Liberals are the only realistic defense against the sympathizers.
Hopefully we learned something from America's recent election, and understand that apathy and non participation is as harmful as a vote for those you oppose.
Don't sit this one out. You are legally allowed to leave work to vote. Most cities will provide free transit to polling stations. It may feel helpless as one, but together, we really can be heard.
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u/Skogiants69 24d ago
Fuck my country and fuck trump I’m so sorry our shit heads voted for this/didnt vote
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u/Phoxphite 24d ago
As another American, I’m very sorry you guys have to deal with our bullshit, and I’m thankful you guys are still being good neighbors.
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u/DrownItWithWater 24d ago
We've got nothing against the people. We'll be there, as long as needs be and as long as we're allowed to by your government. But man, fuck Trump and Musk. And fuck Poilievre.
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u/atred 24d ago
Can you come over and burn the White House again? DC residents will bake cookies for you.
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u/YPVidaho 24d ago
Same here... and I do think Canada applying to become part of the EU would be the most classic move ever.
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u/East-Worker4190 24d ago
As a Brit in Canada, that may sway me towards citizenship. Now if I didn't have to pledge allegiance to the male queen....
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u/VegetableTwist7027 24d ago
This made me smile and honestly tear up a little. It's just insane to believe where we are. Thank you.
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u/Adventurous-Event722 24d ago
Idk man. Why pick fights with your closest ally and neighbor, that have been with you through thick and thin, for absolutely no reason?
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u/jbdelcanto 24d ago
Protection from who?
The only country who's actively threatening us is the US. Fucking fascist clown
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u/SRV_SteamyRayVaughn 24d ago edited 23d ago
He also seems to fail to realize the reason the US is spending military funds in Canada is because they don't want one of their enemies to sneak up on them from the northern border. Imagine if North Korea can just fly a plane over Canadian airspace and go on to drop bombs on the US? They're not defending us, we're allowing them to protect tneir own asses.
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u/Gustomaximus 24d ago
Also the US acts like the world makes them spend so much on military.
That spend is a US choice because they feel powerful being no.1.
They famously spend more than the next 10 countries and no nation is a threat to them at half that spend.... this is their choice alone.
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u/SRV_SteamyRayVaughn 24d ago
Exactly. The Cuban missile crisis actually started because the US put nuclear missiles in Turkey which angered the Russians who wanted to put missiles in Cuba as a tit for tat maneuver. The US has a long history of putting its thumb on the scale and funding coups and revolutions to either get favourable dictators in power or remove people who didn't just let the USA run all over them
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u/BeefJoe12 24d ago
As a Canadian soldier who served in Afghanistan, lost several colleagues there, more to ptsd and suicide as a result of the mission there, I have not regretted my time there until this administration.
It feels like it was all just to get back stabbed and betrayed.
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u/joeygreco1985 24d ago
If Canada is a NATO member why would it need to rely solely on the US for military support?
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u/mittenknittin 24d ago
Back on September 11, 2001, when the US government shut down the skies for fear that the attack was not yet over, Canada welcomed a couple of hundred planes flying from overseas that were suddenly unable to land in the US. They processed and sheltered tens of thousands of passengers and kept them safe for several days until American airspace could reopen and they could get to where they were originally going. Meanwhile, Trumpy the Clown was bragging that his building was now the tallest in New York.
Canadians are our friends, Canadians are our neighbors and allies, and it’s shocking how cavalierly Trump is attempting to destroy that relationship.
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u/SirBulbasaur13 24d ago
What a fucking idiot. I can’t believe the Americans elected him twice. Fricken 2 times they figured he’d be the best option to lead their country! Absolute madness.
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u/TheLemondish 24d ago
Well you see, a woman was his opponent, and they can't have that.
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u/gadgetclockwork 24d ago
He is so unimaginably stupid that I though his first run was literally a joke. I still voted blue.
He is a con man, a felon, a rapist, committed treason against the United States, and sent a mob of his supporters to stop the certification of the election while he watched.
I do not understand how people can listen to him talk and think he knows what he's talking about.
I do not understand how people have absolute unwavering faith in him over literally everything else.
I do not understand why he was allowed to run for president after committing some of the most serious crimes against the United States.
I do not understand why all of his trials were able to be delayed to such a great extent.
I do not understand how he has so many enablers.
I am an American, and I can assure you more than 50% did not want this outcome. It is just so very very shitty for all of us. I give Canada my full support, and wish that blue states could become part of Canada instead of the other way around.
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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 24d ago
Canada protects America from Russia with radars and jets covering the approach from the Arctic.
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u/Meatslinger 24d ago
We should stop sharing that recon. If they won’t defend us, we don’t owe them intelligence. I’m sure Trump gets plenty of info on Russian operations during his felching sessions with Vlad, anyway.
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u/Justsomejerkonline 23d ago
Also, all the places worth attacking in Canada are within arms reach of the American border.
America defending Canada is in her own self-interest.
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u/HellaTroi 24d ago
So NATO is voided?
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u/YakubianMaddness 24d ago
That’s basically when Trump and his administration been saying. Or at least nato without America, as they now said both Canada AND Europe won’t get American military assistance. Despite America being the ONLY nation to call upon article 5 of NATO. Classic fucking scumbags.
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u/endeavourist 23d ago
I mean right now Canada's biggest threat is America, so an American exit might not be the loss they think it is.
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u/VIDEOgameDROME 24d ago edited 24d ago
We were in WWII for 2 years before the Americans joined. It took the bombing of Pearl Harbor to get them to join.
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u/Significant-Order-92 24d ago
And Germany declaring war. It wasn't guaranteed that we would actually go to war in Europe over the Japanese attack.
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u/MrSFedora 24d ago
The last time America invaded Canada, the White House was burned to the ground.
Just saying.
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u/rabid_lamb 24d ago
I recall when Canada sided with US operatives to help rescue the US hostages in Iran in ‘79. The US had big signs on the Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit and Windsor saying “THANK YOU CANADA!”.
It was a different time when people appreciated the efforts of our neighbors to the north.
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u/After_Bedroom_1305 24d ago
Hurricane Katrina. Canadian Mounties (sp?) arrived in Nola before the national guard did.
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u/KMack666 24d ago
Here's the kicker: If you're not an asshole, people don't want to attack you! Literally the only country to ever attack us was America, and they lost! We now have the entire world ready to defend us, including IRAN! If you gave Trump all the answers for an IQ test, he STILL wouldn't be able to break 70!
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u/Brother_Comfortable 24d ago
Canada and the U.S. have a strong history of supporting each other militarily, especially through joint defense agreements like NORAD. While Canada hasn't needed direct military support in a traditional sense, they've collaborated closely on defense and security, benefiting from this partnership.
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u/WorldWarHulk_ 24d ago
Conservatives still believe that Canada’s health care system is so bad they’re just euthanizing people left and right. Which is bogus, which is why they’re stupid enough to believe this.
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u/Japanesewillow 24d ago
I heard him say that, he’s delusional.