"I deal with every country, indirectly or directly. One of the nastiest countries to deal with is Canada," Trump said.

Ladies and gentlemen, the dumbest person on the planet, Donald Trump.

  • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 days ago

    He’s not dumb. He’s cancer. He’s aggressive. And he intends on metastasizing to the entire world. Strongmen only respect strength. We need to show him how nasty we can be. Watch what he does with targets he perceives as weaker than us (if there are any). If he goes after Panama first, or Greenland, you can be certain that we are next.

    This is not empty rhetoric folks. I’ve been saying it since before the election and I’m going to keep saying it, he’s actually coming for us. His first term was full of empty threats. This one hasn’t been. He has followed through, and he will follow through. He will continue to bully us and come at us sideways for awhile, take what he can by hook or by crook, but eventually he will get impatient and greedy. He is coming. Prepare to be another Ukraine, another Afghanistan. The latter is a tiny, technologically backwards nation that is called the “Graveyard of empires” for good reason. We can be that, and we will need to be that. I say this to reassure you that it is absolutely possible to defend our sovereignty against a much larger aggressor. This is anything but a lost cause, but we need to take it very seriously, because he is deadly serious.

    • Nate Cox@programming.devEnglish
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      9 days ago

      SCOTUS declaring full immunity for anything done as an official presidential act is probably why this term feels less hollow; last time around he had to be careful not to end up in prison, this time he has nothing to fear.

    • HonoredMule@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Cancer is very dumb, by any metric I can possibly imagine:

      • it literally lacks any mechanism for intellect/processing information
      • it is a random mutation that renders affected cells dysfunctional
      • it has no mechanism to spread to another host, yet still kills the host it has
      • it has four different ways that it might just kill itself

      This only makes the metaphor all the more apt. Intelligent foes are far less dangerous. You have to be exceedingly dumb to choose mutually assured destruction.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      9 days ago

      Someone tell Doug Ford that capitulating to Trump is not going to pay off. He seems to be moving from big talk of resistance to total submission.

      • HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth
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        9 days ago

        That what conservative do they would sell canada at the first chance but they have to look like big bad men so they bark a little then roll over

      • Ænima@lemm.ee
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        7 days ago

        My take: Conservatives fear liberal/progressive societal advances more than they fear fascism. It’s the same way the DNC fears progressives and would rather lose the game than give progressives a platform. Conservatives love big business and fascism is the result when capitalists fear societal regulation and conservativism seems threatened.

      • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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        9 days ago

        Yeah, I’m curious what changed. Did he get a payout to sell out his province and country? Was he blackmailed? Or was he just bluffing and America called him on it?

        • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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          8 days ago

          What changed is he just got elected for four more years. The facade of Canada First is irrelevant at this point.

  • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    “I deal with every country, indirectly or directly. One of the nastiest countries to deal with is Canada,” Trump said.

    I’ll take that as a complement from you. Thanks!

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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      9 days ago

      Yeah. Tells me our government is working.

      If he stops being adversarial on every situation and threatening us then we’ll be friendly, like we are with every other country.

  • rozcakj@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 days ago

    When it comes to far right-wing ‘conservatives/republicans’, remember that “every accusation is an admission” - especially so for Trump.

    • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
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      9 days ago

      Not if Stormy Daniels is to be believed (I see no reason to not believe her). She went on a late show and showed the mushroom closest to Donalds appendage

  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Yes so nasty of us Canadians sending super scoopers to help with their fires. If only we were one of the nice, friendly, genocidal countries like Isreal.

  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    I know I’m asking a lot, but can anyone compile the list of everyone that Trump has called “nasty”? Because I feel like we’re in really good company.

  • 60d@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 days ago

    America has been subsidizing Canada

    2024: Canada imports ~$480 billion total from the USA. Divided by 40 million Canadian population, that’s $12,000 for every man, woman, and child spent on American shit.

    USA imports ~$586 billion from Canada. Divided by 400 million population, that’s only $1,465 per capita, and that’s only 1/8th of the amount that Canadians bought from the USA in return.

    ##BUY CANADIAN, BE FAIR!##

    You can’t compare apples to apples when one side of the equation has 10 times the population. If we’re trying to be fair, Trumpistan needs to buy 8 times more Canadian shit!

    Tariffs on the Canadian side will be reciprocal and will only serve to make us stop buying Murcan shit, leading to an even bigger Trumped-up deficit and the loss of their biggest, best customer. Likely long-term.