Summary
Trump’s new 25% tariffs on Canadian goods, along with threats of more on lumber and dairy, have sparked widespread backlash in Canada.
Canadians are boycotting American products, canceling U.S. trips, and rallying around “Buy Canadian” efforts. Ontario has banned U.S. liquor sales, and Premier Doug Ford threatened to cut electricity exports.
British Columbia’s premier vowed national unity against the tariffs. The federal government launched a $5 billion aid program for affected businesses.
Many Canadians see the tariffs as a betrayal and reject Trump’s taunts about making Canada the 51st state.
It wasn’t even the trade war. It was the disrespect. It was the questioning of our sovereignty.
Friend can have disagreements. They can even have a fight. Biden tariffed softwood lumber. We didn’t get angry like this, because he never disrespected our country. But this time Trump went all meth head started talking shit about us. This isn’t a difference of opinion. This was made personal.
The US burnt our relationship to the ground and pissed on the ashes.
Don’t expect honesty from the bootlicking mainstream networks. Those concerned with appearing “impartial” when one side is an avowed dictator are not concerned with honesty- only profits.
AP and Propublica are far better options or if you want that left wing bias fox news says mainstream media has, go with Vox.
Yup.
Americans have made it perfectly clear “We are NOT Canada’s friend.”
So, …in words Americans can understand:
“Ya’ll can go fuck yourselves.”
You have declared to us, the USA is an enemy state. Bent on taking Canada over.
You voted on it.
As a US citizen, it makes me so happy that this is making Canada and Europe become stronger and more willing to stand up for themselves.
Since the end of World War II, the USA has been a big bully swinging it’s dick around fucking up the planet and getting hardly any consequences for being such a dick. The only reason we had a period of relative “stability” was because no one would stand up to the country that was siphoning off the wealth of the rest of the world for its own. The USA decimated countless countries and enabled despots who were willing to give the USA what it wanted. (*cough Saddam Hussein, Operation Ajax cough)
This honestly has been a long time coming and well deserved. It is going to hurt me and everyone I love, but too many US citizens have been ignoring this festering wound of a problem for eighty years.
As another American, fully agree. We have been ruining other parts of the planet for a long time just so everyone here can have cheap food and toys to keep them complacent. Even though I was technically covered under it by enlistment, our rule about never sending anyone to The Hague despite what they do has always made me feel like we are not the good guys, just the strongest ape.
Trek made me hope we’d see the stars as a united planet one day but we seem to be regressing and hopefully CA and EU becoming more self-reliant can lead to that.
And y’all is technically for a small group of people, when referring to a large group of people (like a whole country):
All y’all
is actually the correct terminology.
Thus:
All y’all can go fuck yourselves.
interesting! i generally think of “y’all” being the group and “all y’all” being every individual in the group. dialects are fascinating
I think in this case, y’all is more accurate. At least to my understanding. “All y’all” is for every single person in a group, based on my understanding. “Y’all” is the group as a whole. As someone who voted against Trump twice, I’m fine being lumped in with my stupid brethren. We deserve it. But I really don’t want to be seen as one member of that stupid group or people.
Splitting hairs, I know, but what else would we do in Internet forums!?
Canadians have two moods. The first is “I’m sorry”, the second is “You’ll be sorry.”
Second mood activated.
Canada has two sides of a coin, one is “I’m sorry” and the second is “we’re the reason for a lot of the Geneva Convention”
A Ukrainian has since broken the record but if you really piss off a Canadian they’ll say “sorry but fuck you” from 2 miles away.
Trump: being Trump
Canada: “Oh, ya wanna fuckin’ go?!”
Friendly Americans, if you didn’t sign up for this divorce don’t just be sorry, be LOUD. Tell every representative you have just how much bullshit this is, and how un-American it is to turn on an ally.
For those that don’t, just know that silence is assent: you are agreeing to your government’s actions. And if that is the case, get bent, ya hoser.
I’ve been saying the same thing to every apologetic American; we don’t want your apologies, we want your anger.
If you’re so God damn sorry about this, put a stop to it. Until you do, your words mean nothing.
Exactly. Screw your thoughts and prayers, be our ally or don’t. No middle ground here.
