Ladies and gentlemen, the dumbest person on the planet, Donald Trump.
Come on up here Trump, say that to our faces!
We’ll wipe out anyone who dares to invade our country. Scorched earth. We will render the Great Lakes radioactive for thousands of years.
When it comes to far right-wing ‘conservatives/republicans’, remember that “every accusation is an admission” - especially so for Trump.
He still wants to annex us.
Canadians, crank up the nastiness a little more.
Canada will be waiting! Elbows up!
Elbows up is Canada’s new official stance on US relations.
Out of the loop - what doe elbows up mean / refer to?
In hockey “elbows up” is a sign a player would like to fight. In this context Canadians are telling America if you want to start a trade war and question our sovereignty, we are gonna put up a fight instead of just bending over.
Gotcha! Best of luck to Canada if push comes to shove. As a 'murican I’d like to think my countrymen and especially our military whose loyalty is sworn to the constitution, not to the president, would resist the fuck out of an order to invade Canada, but so far we don’t seem to have much of a spine.
Idk what all I can do to help from inside the dumpster fire, but I’ll throw a wrench in the gears on this side whenever the opportunity presents.
…this is all just so fucking stupid >_<
Please protect your elbows while you’re putting us in our place. I recommend elbow pads:
“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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
What changed is he just got elected for four more years. The facade of Canada First is irrelevant at this point.
I saw someone else mention that after I posted and that seems the most likely reason.
He looks to us the way Putin looks at Ukraine.
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.
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.
He absolutely is dumb. But that doesn’t mean he’s not dangerous.
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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.
Trump can go fuck himself, can’t he?
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
We were beautiful last week, now we’re nasty. Whatever. This charade is getting crustier than Trump’s toe cheese.
Donald Trump was meant to die in prison.
Founding fathers would have had him hanging from a tree
I’d consider myself nice, but if you want nasty, Donald, I’ll give you nasty.
So why does he want to annex Canada if it’s so “nasty”?
Nasty, filled with drugs, and we have nothing that Americans need! LOL What a clown.
Dear Canadians,
Despite being fully taken over by morons, this soon-to-be US expat loves you.
I don’t understand, will you be an American that temporarily lives and works in another country?
Or will you live and work in America temporarily?
In the latter case: why choose the us?
In the former case: Why only temporarily leave the US?
American Expat means leaving the USA. ”ExPat" means ex-patriot. Not the best word, but it’s what people use.
“Expat” is what people from wealthy countries use because applying terms like “migrant” to themselves make them feel uncomfortable.
It’s a subtle form of racism / classism.
Well, I didn’t intend it as such. I’m the son of a Cuban immigrant and have no shame in that. I’m using the vernacular. Take your accusations elsewhere, please.
I didn’t think you intended it as such, and am not “accusing” you of anything.
I was simply making an observational comment about how that word is commonly used in the west. You yourself said it’s not the best word.
Plenty of vernacular expressions have their roots in racism and other inequality, and are used by media to support heirarchies and disguise inequality.
It doesn’t hurt to be mindful of that or to question our unwitting reinforcement of these ideas. For example a few years ago we saw UK “expats” voting for brexit to keep out “migrants”. A little more mindfulness might have meant a little less voting for leopards to eat faces.
It also “doesn’t hurt” to take things as intended. And before you call me our for the same, know that this will be a merry-go-round if you do.
Nothing I said was about you. Why would I “call you out”?
This isn’t fight club it’s the fediverse. You need to chill.
Yea expats are foreign workers that intend to return home after some time. While immigrants are looking to stay.
I still maintain that there is some ambiguity with “US expat” but I ain’t no native speaker. So what do I know.
I will return home to my parents and family for visits. I have permission to work from mexico from my company. I may come back I’d the states get their shit together, but I’m tired of fighting for a lost cause.
