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Mr21782Man
As an American, do your thing. Make it hurt. The MAGAts think he'll win. The "both sides are the same" voters think, well who knows. The only way they'll get it is if they feel the pain directly. Just like the Trump voters that are shocked their friends and relatives got deported.
Lassannn
Robin Williams once described Canada as a very nice penthouse one floor above a meth lab.
Flyspyro
Most Americans love đ¨đŚ. Trump is a clown.
madvin
All Europe stands with Canada! FU US!
KalypsoKirin
America could be about to find out why the Geneva convention was written...
msdss
It is illegal for me to say I want the President to be brutally tortured and murdered on live television.
SirDalud
'murica voted. Now, take care y'all. It's gonna suck like fuuuuuuck. Enjoy the ride and learn to vote.
whereismymind86
trust me, we all love canada, it's just our dumbass president who doesn't.
Klpincoyo
America is a shit hole country
ifixlasers42
Trump is an idiot. I work in manufacturing and am bracing for âsupply chain shortagesâ like the last time he did this nonsense. Really sucks
fartharder
I live in a border state to Ontario, I love my Canadian brothers and sisters.
Shawnthegirl
Love you, Canada. Can I come for an extended visit? I didn't vote for the cheetoh
Musamura0987
Yes. And bring cake
Trelis
When you are a little shit bully, having a nice friendly neighbour just makes you look even worse.
GrenithTheSkald
In Canada, our first move was that all provinces will be enacting a 25% tariff on U.S. goods. And several of our provinces have stated that on Tuesday, all American alcohol will be removed from liquor stores. Additionally, there has been consideration that we cut off all power and water utilities supplied to the U.S. Effectively increasing how much power/water utilities will cost across the U.S.
Zyvun
I have lost all hope in this country.
Vendura
Becker37
I don't understand the need to hurt others. Why can't we just live in peace? Why does it have to be so chaotic and full of turmoil? Existence is painful enough without all this hate
Frothington
Because we let greedy maniacs lead us who are more than happy to sacrifice other peoples lives to get more wealth/power.
eaglesfield
Oh Canada! Glorious and free, we true Americans also stand on guard for thee.
Kingstonboy
No you won't. all talk...
iwishjtmoneywasstillavailableitsmyoldvideogamemoniker
Dear neighbors to the North and South. Please defend yourselves against this fucker. We're doing what we can from within.
pandasmakemehappy
I have no beef with Canada or Mexico. I hope neither of you back down
FineNevermind
jimmythehat1
Remember how big a deal it was when the North American Free Trade Agreement [NAFTA] was passed? It was a huge boon.
zFUBARz
Helped all three countries reach new levels of prosperity (although I expect bad for smaller local providers and manufacturers I'd imagine)
CleverGroom
Politically, NAFTA's a big piece of what led us down this road. I'm dog tired of representatives of the Clinton-to-Romney consensus liberalsplaining how the rising tide raises all boats and just you wait, it'll trickle down eventually and wait, no, stop, why are you voting for Trump for twelve years straight and how did the HitlergruĂ come back into vogue?
There's valid critiques of NAFTA from both the left and the right. Doesn't leave voters many options in the absence of a left-wing party.
GrandmasterSpank
As a side node... does Canada have nukes ?
QuanticChaos
Our navy used to have 5 yellow submarines, and we kept them inside a mall...
carrotsonfire
No, but it wouldn't take long for them to get them if threatened. Not just nukes, bio weapons. A virus with a 100% fatality rate but is easy to defeat with a vaccine and a mask. The entire Republican voter base will be dead in six months.
GrandmasterSpank
I think Canada should seriously consider stocking up.
macha100
We have Canadian Geese
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
No, but the UK has well over 200 nukes and wouldn't take kindly to Canada being attacked or invaded.
GrandmasterSpank
If I were Canada I would start secret talks with both France and UK to ship some nukes to Canada.
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
If push comes to shove, the UK can quickly have Vanguard-class submarines near the Canadian coast who can hit targets up to 4,000 miles away.
GrandmasterSpank
Thats all nice and stuff but I can guarantee you 100% UK, not any other EU country, will go to war against USA. Sadly, Canada needs to be able to defend itself. It needs it own nukes. And it needs to actually use them (on their own Canadian soil) should 1 American soldier step across the border.
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
Nukes are a deterrent. And unlike missile silos on land, nuclear submarines off the coast can't be easily captured. You don't actually use nukes because then all hell breaks loose and there are no real winners in the end.
fastjeff
Fuck you america, fuck all of you. Sitting on your hands and pointing out how shitty a deal this for Canada is how you got to where you are. Make a decision and follow through some fucking day. Letting us all suffer for your bullshit is cowardice personified. Fuck you.
CleverGroom
My fellow Americans, what we're feeling now is how a lot of our Russian comrades have felt through the backlash against Putinist genocide. Sucks, doesn't it?
We'd best get used to it. World's gonna have more and better reasons to hate us before too long.
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
Why are you shitting on individuals? I didnât âsit on my handsâ! I voted & was part of many left-wing political groups that got people registered & pushed left-wing policies, but we still loss. Thatâs not on me. I can hate the Chinese government without hating all Chinese people. I can hate the Russian government without hating all Russian people. Your comment is xenophobic against USA citizens. Most of us are all just plebs trying to make it through each day & your hatred doesnât help.
sylkysmooth
I mean this, too, is just a result of Conservative policies and corporatism. Together they've done everything they can to both produce and convert people into individuals that don't have critical thinking skills and are constantly so placated that they basically tune out the rest of the world, let what happens happen, and only live in the moment without a single thought toward anything but what they're told by the same people that've made them as they are. Of course knowing this doesn't really >
sylkysmooth
> matter as it still leads everyone down the same path. So we end up with people that want to do something but are too scared and find it easier to just get lost in other things and people that don't care to do anything because they just believe "it is how it is," basically. No one's around to spur others to action and lift the haze that has been placed over them so we all just deal and cope with rugged free enterprise capitalism as the rich feed off the Socialism we give them.
HitandRyan
I've fucking hated Trump since the Obama years. I fucking hated Bush before that. Our opposition is controlled. Our elections are FPTP Electoral College bullshit. We are swimming against the current down here.
AyatollahBahloni
Felonious PIG đ is as vile, stupid, and incompetent a politician as America has ever seen. He cares nothing for America or its people. He only seeks to enrich himself, have people applaud his greatness, and take infantile, petty vengeance on anyone he sees as persecuting or opposing him. He was put into power by fascist oligarchs and white supremacists who saw him as the useful idiot, easily manipulated by flattery to achieve their nefarious ends. We are fucked.
yikesaroni
a thin blond combover would've been more fitting than the american flag
WarlockWithNoPatron
Meh. Close enough for the next couple years.
SaintSleepyWeasel
Can we reclaim the American flag? I like it, it's pretty.
CapttainKillJoy
Red hat
MyVerySmarterUserName
I feel where youâre coming from. But Nazi Germany was called Nazi Germany even though plenty of Germans werenât Nazis and certainly didnât vote Hitler into power.
glovelyday
Countries don't pay tariffs, importers do. They pass the increased costs along to you. The money winds up in the federal government's hands. That is just a hidden TAX. Not Canada, Mexico, or China pays it, you do.
In the Revolutionary era they knew a sneaky tax when they saw one.
archimboldi
Also not like a lot of companies are going to use to increase their prices even more.
RockKickass
Also when the tariffs are dropped the price wonât. This is a test to see how much more weâll pay for shit
Kaze54
Fun fact, the tea tax (of 1770 something) actually removed the tax in tea sold by the east India trading company and made them a monoploy. At the time, the company was considered too big to fail and was failing. The removal of the tea tax hurt the founding fathers who made big money smuggling tea.
BlackHoleSon01
They also recognized a traitor when they encountered one. Today's "patriots" elected one.
t9dawg
Europeans paying 23-27% VAT on goods to finance defence, education, health care etc = bad bad socialists stealing money we could never do that!!
Trumps 25% tax on goods = hell yea MAGA wohooooo! let's fund massive AI projects for our tech bro billionaires!
rmargiotta
Itâs a national sales tax but with retaliation so US companies are hurt too. So a double tax.
palmmute
Sales taxes are also regressive in nature, meaning they hurt the poor more than they hurt the wealthy. So he raised a regressive tax without needing Congress, and he can say he didn't just raise your taxes and that this will actually help you to his base who are too busy practicing their "Roman" salutes at this point anyway.
Lovingimpaler
So it's a way to tax your people while lying about who is actually paying it, when everyone knows that's bullshit. Got it. Sounds like the Rump alright.
pan069
And worse, what do you think happens to the price of local maple syrup when the one imported from Canada increases cost by 25%? That's right, the price of local maple syrup will also increase. Tada...
NaughtButOne
It still hurts the other country as manufacturers either move to other suppliers, or consumers stop buying that manufacturers products when the price increases - either way, it's less trade into the destination country. Like everything fascists (nee: conservatives) do, harming people is the entire and only point.
1stDrunkJoe
Their Mc Mansions are going to get a lot more expensive and the housing crisis will become a catastrophe.
ParallelParkingInABurka
StellarJay77
While lining their own pockets with citizen's money.
pyroshen
It hurts everyone involved. Sellers lose sales. Buyers pay more. Consumers pay more.
Deathcameawienering
What it does is keep consumers desperate and turning on eachother instead of uniting and smashing our system to bits
Nykidemus
The idea of tariff is to make it easier for local producers to sell their goods. It is a negative for the external producers, and for the
Nykidemus
consumers, but it's a benefit for the people in the field that is being taxed within the country that has the tariff.
Teddiebeast
Only really helps if that industry can actually compete though. If it cant be up to the level required, everyone suffers.
CyberTaniwha
No exporters pay tariffs, but they increase their prices to the importers to cover the tariffs, which in turn makes it more expensive as it moves through that countries logistic chain. The only thing hitting the govt coffers is the sales tax, and fuel tax if there is any.
PrincessJimmyCarter
Export tariffs, where a country puts a tax on goods leaving the country, do exist, but that's not what's happening now. Interestingly, an export tariff on Canadian oil is being considered. This would most strongly affect gas prices in the Midwest as those refineries are set up to process heavy oil from the tar sands and would have to be retooled before they could process lighter Texas oil.
glovelyday
Nope.
glovelyday
Totally incorrect.
TheobromineAddict
You would think that somebody who frequently brags about being a graduate of Penn's Wharton School "of Finance" would know how tariffs work. In fact, I think he does know⌠So what is the real game here? It should become obvious by April that tariffs (and deporting farm workers) are just increasing the cost of almost everything, so how is he going to explain it all away?
WhyDoThis
Eh, he'll blame Obama and the Dems. Wont even recognize Bidens stint in office.
For real though, like everything else they will do mental gymnastics to justify why thier costs have gone up and say somehow it's good for the country even though we will still be buying product from other countries.
spookyactionatadistance
The end goal is fascism. That's it. The powerful know what is coming with climate change and they are racing to get their hands on resources.
WackyTicTacCasualty
Heâll blame Biden for everything, (like he blamed Obama last time).
OmNachoMama
He'll blame Obama, too. And DEI. And trans people.
AeonQuasars
Because he doesn't care. It increases the prices sure, but it also increases the country income. The country earn more money, the people pay the price. He doesn't give 2 shits about anyone but himself.
cyrusthevyrus
Just read this quote from Kristi Noem: "If prices go up, itâs because of other peopleâs reactions to Americaâs laws." https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/02/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico/
ElroydIsGone
You have to assume that he works on a very, very primitive cognitive and mental level, like "I hurt you until you bow down and give me what I want."
That's it, nothing more.
All the bad that tariffs will do to the US and its people? Doesn't matter, Canada and Mexico will bow down and pay double and in the end, Americans will have more than before. That's it. Primitive, drooling bully logic.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
Americans won't have more than before. The govt will, and the oligarchs have their hands deep in the govts pockets. They aren't even hiding it anymore.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
The US buys more from Canada than Canada buys from the US. So it'll be the US paying more in the end.
ElroydIsGone
He thinks that Canadian sellers need the US market, while US buyers don't need the Canadian goods, b/c they can buy from everywhere, so he'd only hurt Canadian sellers. He doesn't think that buying elsewhere might be even more expensive and that Canda can sell elsewhere.
He is not bright.
LifeIsADanceOfMinds
The "I don't want politics in my happy space" are having a field day... must be painful having to open these posts just to hit the Down Arrow.
Wrongclusterbdisorderbutgooff
If it gets too much I either swipe until I find a distracting dump or leave the app to watch something on YouTube. Clint's reptiles, North of the border, game grumps, Brandon Farris. There's absolutely no reason to suffocate one's self with constant doom scrolling. But I don't get people throwing tantrums. Just swipe or leave.
Shawnthegirl
I don't have the politics tag blocked, but I like knowing I could if I wanted.
HUGHgReaction
Block them all you want, people generally don't tag anyhow
vicmango201410
It's like an ostrich sticking it's head in the sand
WarlockWithNoPatron
Lucky bird.
thedarkcanuck
I don't want it either, but I also don't want a needless trade war that only benefits russia and china, so here we are
Morganelefay
Yes well, there's still a lot of non-Americans here who would like to not get America's bullshit constantly shoveled into their faces so fucking tag those posts.
thedarkcanuck
I'm part of that category, but here we are. America's bullshit is now cutting into my budget, so yeah here we are.
ojisama
Yeah. I did my best, and didn't vote for Trump, but well, couldn't really vote for an alternative either, so here I am, across a bloody big sea, waiting to be in a fucking trade war caused by a rancid idiot and his plethora of supporters.
LifeIsADanceOfMinds
Here we are indeed.
happenedtomeonce
As an Ameican I can tell you I love Canada and Mexico WAY more than I love America right now
angren918
Samesies!
SeishinFFRK
Same
iamthedoctorthisismytardis
As a Texan.....that goes double for me.
ventikona
As a Canadian, same.
ratchedRDH
Same.
HitandRyan
I certainly love Canada and Mexico more than that fascist dickwad.
VaultGirl69
I mean, we weren't any better before them. And we messed with South American economies then exploited the labor of the desperate while demonizing them. Mexico and Canada also don't allow food/drink companies to put HFCS in indigestible. No one kid average being shot a week while trying to get an education. Healthcare. Etc. Our standard of living is horrible for most and we can't improve because people here are selfish and only vote when they think something will personally impact them. Etc.
Comet260
I love a pile of LITERAL DOG SHIT more than I love America right now.
Hextant
Been the case for me for my entire 34 years. Maybe because I grew up poor enough we only had a heater when we also needed to use the oven for more than 12 years of my life, and I actively watched us still being turned away from places that said they helped people like us ... nothing too new here, except now I fear being killed actively anytime I step out of my residence, instead of passively when I walked at night or something.
potentiallyunsafe
1eventHorizon9
I am absolutely disgusted with this my country right now.
hungmung
Same. I've debated looking into how to move to Canada with the way things are going ATM.
SlightChungus
It's a national embarrassment what we are doing to our closest brothers and sisters.
mtyree42101
100% agree
NorrinxRadd
Ditto
sharkbirdbitecaw
I 2nd this
baconeggcheesehashbrownburrito
Same.
awkungen42
As an American I couldn't agree more. This country is a dogshit burning pile the worst humans on the planet. Fuck MAGA.
Spiffytown
I wish to stay married to the love of my life; itâs the only reason I still live in USA. If sheâd agree, Iâd have been applying for citizenship or permanent residency elsewhere 3 months ago. We have family here, and thatâs important - but I say they can join or visit. Itâs gonna get worse.
zazznz
At the moment they can only hurt you in non physical and ways, but they have 4 (possibly more) years to change that. I would definitely get out if I were you.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
My family and my husband's family both live in Florida. We moved to Canada.
hotaru251
yup. America is no longer "the great"...its a cesspool of hate and revival of nazi's.
theworldcouldbeflat
Bluekitten03
Hard same... i hate my country and it's orange stain.
Sonicschilidogs
I love my country, I just hate about half the mother fuckers in it..... Damn, is this what it feels like to be a conservative!?
Bluekitten03
Apparently, hahaha
ComicSansHumor
Hard same.
NLP32
Ditto.
ToasterDent
I love America, but am angry at the people here who are Anti-American and acting against the Constitution.
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Gaelwyn
Trying to remove birthright citizenship for one.
arumunus
I love the land, and the small communities of good people.
I'm ashamed to be associated with that the powers that be are making America into, today.
TsubakiTragic
America has had a 250 year history of being shitty.
IAmDuckHammer
Same here. I for damn sure will be running for MI-10 in 2026 and if I win, I'll run for President in 2028.
SaintSleepyWeasel
Ditto.
IEatTACOs2
As an embarrassed, no hope for my country American, I love both of those countries much more as well.
TheBlackSonOfTheHonestMan
Ditto
SirJamesMonster42
I'm helping a friend while they finish nursing school in August. Once that's over, I'll take stock of the situation. Then I'll decide if I'm sticking around.
FrenziiTheSuccubus
floofnmeeps
This. We're very shitty at the moment and it's embarrassing.
raymm
Here is a bumper sticker, just written for you.
Dragongirl7256
I was fucking ASTONISHED to see your national anthem getting BOOED at the hockey game in Calgary...
Do you have ANY idea how angry a Canadian has to be to BOO AN ANTHEM???
BlueValentine99
Righteously angry. Canada has every right to be. As an American, I'm sorry... and many of us are trying our best to stop the madness. It feels like it's not enough right now.
Simusar
We're in a "phase" that will hopefully last only 4 years
Slickdoodle
We could get lucky and have it last only two. The Grim Reaper answers to no man, nor magat.
DavidRescinded
That's what ik hoping. Germany and Italy are amazing countries now, but they each bad a bad 10 year "phase"
do7rkb5n
I'm hoping that we make it through this phase safely and then morph our government into something better.
DavidRescinded
We will.
shankelstoff
From an outsider perspective: you have always been like a slightly embarrassing really cool older brother. Now it's like the older brother has started whoring for meth.
DavidRescinded
Well quite a lot of us are addicted to meth, so kinda makes sense
mdb9937
As an American, this is the best explanation of the way our government has chosen to operate and the way a too large part of our society has chosen to act I have ever seen. I am "borrowing" this explanation, with your permission of course.
shankelstoff
Of course! I'm Swedish if you want to add some detail/flair to the quote :)
I'm really sorry for you guys. I hope that enough magats come to their senses in four years...
mdb9937
Me too, my friend...though I'm not optimistic.
johneventually1
darkninja2992
Same. I want stable trade with the other countries. I want to work together and cooperate, but people elected the LEAST suitable person for something like that
PurifiedInTheWatersOfLakeMinnetonka
Canada: Take me and my state. PLEASE.đ
farthardersqueen
Mine too! Michigan can be Canadian!!
IEatTACOs2
As a Washingtonian I fully endorse this message as well.
devon292
Please take the blue dot that is Omaha it's bad enough we have to share land mass with the trump huskers
yourmomatwoodstock
Iâm also from Minnesota, we are culturally more like Canada then the rest of the U.S. anyway. Annex us, please!
Gaelwyn
The left coast would also like to join Canada.
Kingstonboy
Talk is cheap, and that is all you got. We don't want your pity. I will die defending this nation before being named an American citizen. We are done with being your nice neighbour, bring on the tanks assholes.
Jeenius
He just said he doesn't agree with what America is doing and you still found a way to get offended. You sure you're not American already?
Kingstonboy
No, i am disgusted with having the stupidest nation as a neighbour. You all act like a boiling sea of maggots fighting to see who gets to fuck over someone else. There is zero empathy left in your nation. A nation of racist, bigoted, selfish know it alls when you know jack shit. Your nation is built on greed and slavery, and hate. The fact that this idiot was even on the ballet is a true representation of what American society is all about. Fuck the poors, and the rich go free. Fuck all of you.
Jeenius
This is akin to saying fuck the jews for not stopping their own genocide. One should not make such sweeping generalizations. I hope you find peace, neighbor.
PapaSez
Their username says it all. The American equivalent would be something along the lines of 'HarrisonAKboy'
Kingstonboy
I grew up in Kingston, N.S. and I am a male. My mother is 91 and still calls someone (long dead) that was raised in Kingston, a Kingston boy. And you have to chirp off and make it political. That is your big problem in America, your whole persona is wrapped up in a shitty flag, that some will hide behind and some will use as a weapon. We don't "register" with a party for life here, we simply vote, and we can change our minds at any time.
INeverReadTheTOS
America truly is is to Canada what Homer Simpson is to Ned Flanders.
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BloodLoveRhetoric
Might be time to move to a White Whine Spritzer vibe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BEvh6HSQc0
mrpotatoes
Homer isn't a fascist
SavageDrums
Canada would never try to baptize America's kids without consent...
DetectiveFrankDrebin
Stupid sexy Canada.
Anlurai
Mr. Burns if he was Flanders neighbor.
thedudeman519
We killed his wife?
AllAnusMorissette
goboltz
Times a "Gozillion" Forest...
Simusar
No beer, no TV makes America something something
MattDude
https://youtu.be/hnewjEEUs1c
WilliamWeird
Canada's existence is next door proof that universal healthcare is possible. It's hard to convince your kids that metal is the devil when the punks next door are friendly and approachable.
kyro
And as an American: thank you, Canada, for embarrassing us like that. We deserve it.
thelegendofthetwistednavigator
America is to Canada what Casey Anthony was to her daughter
GBMaker
I like your analogy.
WhatUpDog3000
"America's Ned Flanders to the North" - Kent Brockman
genevievil
Stupid sexy healthcare
CaldariBob
And tonight, all of America will be thinking about how sexy our ass looks.
BofusTeefus
Homer wasn't an evil piece of shit
Willowofwisp
And Flanders wasn't responsible for the Geneva convention.
Midgarmerc
He literally murdered Flanders wife and never apologized
stonetemplefox05
Wasn't there an episode where homer dreams about murdering Flanders over and over?
veesee
Yeah he was just dumb
Weavedaddy
Well, at least not the first few seasons
stygimoIoch
That's when he choked Bart the most
Hyperboi
The newer seasons don't have the redeeming qualities he once showed... funny how true that rings...
HooahDO
I mean if judged someone by the amount of times he choked a child, then idk about that
JonSnowAKAAegonTargaryen
Trump's hands are too small to choke a child.
Goldensands
You could changed choked to murdered, multiply it by 10, and he still wouldn't deserve to be compared to america
xeilua
Strangled, but yes I agree with your sentiment
kyro
How much do you know about Homer?
suiseiseki
Didnât he send some poor guy all across the Mediterranean only to find lines of dudes ready to fuck his wife?
kyro
DukeDarkwood
Look, sometimes people get lost on the way home, don't think to ask for directions, commit some light murder, and spend seven years as a witch's concubine. These things happen.
HoneNathan
What?
DukeDarkwood
Odyssey joke.