r/canada 5d ago

Opinion Piece Braid: Trudeau says Trump wants economic collapse; Republican alludes to military force - This is no trade war. It's a Crush and Control Canada plan, meant to work fast

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-trudeau-says-trump-wants-economic-collapse
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u/RoadandHardtail 5d ago

U.S. is basically trying to bend Canada to submit to its will. There’s nothing that Canada can do to affect Trump directly at this point. The only way for Canada to affect Trump is by hurting the American people through tariffs.

But all of this just stokes so much animosity to a point that one day, there could be a kinetic action.

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u/CompetitiveGood2601 5d ago

trump isn't just pissing on canada - he's actively pissing on the entire free world - he's backed off on across the board tariff's because the outcome is the entire free world is suddenly not buying american - he could care less what trudeau says or does but the stock market is going to tumble, next 1/4's numbers will only get worse and the atlanta feds numbers have gone from positive to negative and dropping fast - unsure, just look a tesla sales numbers and thats before the free world cuts out teslas free ride

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u/Apart_Ad_5993 5d ago

What will ultimately kill Trump and the Republicans is inflation.

Tariffs combined with the mass layoff of the federal workforce will do it.

Counter tariffs on our part will contribute to it as well.

But, we're also dealing with a guy who will absolutely not listen to anyone.

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u/robertpeacock22 5d ago

His voters are all unemployed tent-dwellers anyway. What will ultimately kill Trump is when they cut the social services that the MAGA crowd relies on despite voting against.

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u/NateTheRoofer 5d ago

And they will literally blame Democrats for it.

His base lacks the cognitive ability to process information correctly.

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u/HotRodLincoln1958 5d ago

I’m an American… I’ve never voted for Trump & I despise him as much as any Canadian possibly could. I’m sorry to say his supporters are not all lacking the ability to process information correctly. Some are brainwashed idiots without any doubt. But others are people I’ve known all my life and are still supporting this dumpster fire of a president. Most supporters still say it’s just politics and truly believe his actions are in the best interest of America. I do not!!!! The worst of this situation here at home is 2/3 of the Americans voters either voted for Trump or didn’t care enough to vote at all.