It’s a very complex subject that is difficult to solve
In a sane world, I agree with you. But we’re dealing with a man who himself doesn’t realise its complexity and only understands strategies that are “blunt and absurd”.
We can use as nuanced and soft-toed strategies all we want and he’ll never get it through his orange head.
God I’m exhausted.
At this point, we just need to cut it all off completely. Oil shipments, electricity, lumber, aluminum. All of it.
I know that that’s a hard ask for those industries that are affected, and if it means the federal goverment has to temporarily raise the deficit in order to subsidize those industries it’ll be crazy expensive and inflation will shoot up. But I’m convinced that that would be only a short amount of time that that would actually be needed.
Let the United States go one week without our stuff. 100%…fuck 'em. They’ll last one week. Maybe two. And when they quit their bullshit, make it clear that we are diversifying our business partners making it easier to pull it from them again anytime they let Trump open is fucking mouth.
Hold our resources hostage against them.
Sure would be a shame if four people 3D printed four parts of a DIY gun and smuggled them in seperately before assembling it in the bathroom using a stack of confidential documents as a workbench.
At this point in Muskrat’s meddling, it’s reached the point of treason.
You don’t negotiate with traitors. You don’t reason with traitors. When all is said and done, you reach the point where the only thing that is done with traitors is to put them against the wall in front of a firing squad. If that’s the side your “friend” wants to pick, it’s on him.
The fact that there aren’t near continuous attempts on his life every day is an embarrassment to the so-called “don’t tread on me” attitude of the American people.
I was raised on a parade of chili and soups packed and frozen in poor-man’s tupperware (reused margarine and yogurt containers).
Turning the lights off and on is usually how you deal with a cranky misbehaving group of children.
So yeah. Let’s do it just for the sake of the metaphor.
That Ozempic chewing orange twat has never physically jumped in his life, let’s be honest.
I always assumed hate against him was like Canadian Fox News stuff.
It mostly is, yes. The Conservative Party leader is very much a Maple Maga fanboy, and (like all Conservatives before him) he appeals to the Prairie provinces; the oil workers, farmers, truckers, etc… Your basic Fox news crowd. His father was also very disliked by the same crowd, and so his last name itself triggers them like you wouldn’t believe. (Think “Canadian Clintons”)
But a large part of it (I initially thought), was also typical Canadian political trends. We tend to put the Liberals in power and then keep re-electing them long enough for them to inevitably become the villain (usually about a decade), and then over-correct and do the same thing with the Conservatives. Like clockwork, and it was coming up to about that time.
Now, though, with Trudeau stepping down, and the promise of a new leader…combined with the general hatred of Pierre Poppinfresh, the Liberals fortunes have turned around 180 degrees. So it’s going to be an interesting federal election rather than the landslide that the Maple Maga fuckwits were expecting.
I’m always reminded of the episode of How I Met Your Mother when Barney claims that he can never take a bad photo…
He’s probably absolutely flabbergasted that his investment is paying off far better than he could have ever forseen.
The U.S. is like any other country; it has its share of assholes. But I generally avoid painting everyone of however many million people with the same broad brush.
There is a somewhat obnoxious level of patriotism to Americans in general that comes from simply being the biggest economy and a net cultural exporter to the rest of the world; think blue jeans and coca-cola, metaphorically. (I’m sorry, Americans, but it’s true. Put on your big boy pants and deal with the criticism like adults, please.)
But it only rises to the level of arrogance in those people who think that the rest of the world only exists because of them and should behave as some sort of client state to American hegemony.
That’s not all Americans. Heck, I’d say it’s not even most Americans. But they’re just really really loud and drown out everything else.
I’d hate to be the custom’s agent posted there.
You’re getting downvoted. But I agree with you.
Canada can accomplish most of its goals regarding diversifying its trade away from the U.S. without having to go to full EU status.
But I sure wouldn’t mind having some of those lovely French nukes sitting on our southern border right now. If full EU membership is what it takes for that to happen, so be it.
multiple armed raids
I mean…technically…sure. But the two armed groups were never actually there at the same time. They simply came at different times to swap Whiskey and Schnaps.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that Canada’s food standards with regards to dyes and preservatives are already far closer to the EU standard than the American.
Trump doest see “allies”.
With the exception of Russia and China, Trump sees everyone else as “client states”.
Exactly my thinking as well. Super Mario Brothers was the game that made “couch gaming” popular for more than just kids. Adults were getting into it as well. I still have fond memories of my dad trying his best at it and thinking sticking his tongue out in the right direction would somehow help his jumping ability.
Without the NES, the couch-gaming scene as we know it wouldn’t exist. And Super Mario Brothers was the game that brought it to the masses.
My oh my. Check out Mr. Optimist over here thinking that they’ll be time to be “historians” in between scavenging for scraps and battling the nuclear mutants for the last bottle of fresh water at the bombed out Tesco.
Cries in Canadian