We know we can't win a trade war. We don't want to be in a trade war that hurts both countries. You launched it. Abide by the f***ing trade deal YOUR President signed! Signed a pissed off Canadian from a very united country.
We will win. It may take a long time and we will suffer but we will win. Or, it will be quick and we won’t suffer much because they will be at war with themselves.
level the playing field between a country of 40 million and onevwithb340 million people? Garbage. The President said he would economically destroy Canada. Friendless jerk.
New talking point, "they just don't have the cards." What cards exactly JD? They outsmart you, outclass you and have the full support of their citizens. Maybe it's you that should be checking your hand.
Big talk for a man standing in front of a bunch of people who can’t disagree with him in a military base he can’t venture out of because he is unwanted and would be immediately faced with protests. Say that shit in front of anyone who can speak truth back to your smug face.
They don't "love" us. Greedy imperialist sickos want our land, natural resources, Arctic, and Northwest Passage. My visceral loathing of Vance and Trump grows by the day.
They're already trading with others. Canada is fine. The US, on the other hand, has made enemies with everyone. Trump was already begging other countries for eggs, and he was denied.
Most Americans don’t want this fight, and certainly don’t want the pain that it will bring. Canadians, at least right now, are solidly behind our response.
100% correct, and you will win as soon as you cause us a little inconvenience, because this is already not a popular policy among Americans and it will be easy to make it less so. Give us hell, especially the red states.
It’s a fine line because tariffs applied by our government hurt Canadians. Their aim is to have the most impact on red states, while minimizing impact to Canadians.
And the fun part about a trade war is that everyone loses and nobody wins. And the US is starting it which means everyone else is going to be trying to make sure we lose the most.
🇨🇦 is the 🇺🇸 largest trading partner (& 🇺🇸 traveller) larger than China Japan France & UK COMBINED
No travel to US from 🇨🇦 📉75%
No purcases of any 🇺🇸 goods
Retalitory tariffs maybe 💡 lights out?
ANGER 🇨🇦 DETERMINATION
🇨🇦 MASTERS OF OUR OWN 🇨🇦 COUNTRY🇨🇦
Zalenskyy had a great response that day in the oval, said something like, 'what cards? We're not playing a game, we're fighting a war' but Trump was talking over him, as usual. Dick tater is right.
Let him think what he wants but we are still going to bankrupt the US since we use to buy 51 % of exports and tourism and cross border shopping and on and on. Don’t care at all , he’s such a little weasel.
Shouldn’t our stalwart MSM be asking why this wasn’t mentioned on the campaign trail? Because if it is such a great fucking idea to invade all our neighbors, I’m feeling like we should have voted on it.
Reminds me of RW-SCOTUS nominees and their “settled law” lie.
"We love the Canadian people..." Then talks about destroying our economy, that we're not strong/smart enough to survive it, not to mention mocking us, our borders and threatenting us.
We hate your guts Vance! A big fuck you from Canada 🖕🇨🇦💪
He's straight out admitting he's extorting us. Anyway, we have a PhD economist in charge and I have way more confidence in my country than the idiots regime
I would have been really scared if this current admin is competent and not royalty hires and armchair experts. This team can't even buy eggs around the world.
Vance knows how wrong he is, but is trying some major bluster-bluff here. Canada might do well to turn the screws just a bit harder and watch the bottom fall out for this administration. A hot war with Canada is the only winnable thing, and America has no appetite for that.
They have brute force on their side and the threat of nukes. They have a populace with zero stomach for casualties and a force without any sort of ability to fight guerrilla tactics. They only have “shell the enemy into submission”.
If Canada has any sense and I’m sure we do there wouldn’t be much initial resistance. If expect the military to mostly blend into the population and run an insurgency within Canada and the US.
Lack of originality. Once they hear something from Trump that makes them giggle, they can’t think of anything else. Also, they actually thought they scored over Zelenskyy in the Oval Office meeting, so of course it’s their go to phrase now. It’s their rabbit’s foot.
Casinos of course. As you decline with dementia, the hardest longer exposed memories are retained for a longer period of time, than more recent memories.
Thanks for the offer, but we're good. Trump will isolate the US from the trading world and the rest of us will redevelop our networks. Unfortunately, Americans' quality of life will slowly decline making people angrier and angrier.
JD needs to learn that the cards are only a small part of the game. The card player is impt has well, our guy is pretty fucking good, has not bankrupted even one casino.
Canada isn't as dum as Maga America. This guy and his Haitians eating cats and dogs nonsense. Don't believe anything they say. Give it time. America won't be a superpower under Trump's regime.
Both countries will lose. But Canadians will rally together, because they've been capriciously attacked for no damn reason. Americans will bitch and moan in confusion about prices and blame Biden and DEI.
There is one difference. Canada has to fight this trade war. The US doesn't. So who wins? No one. But who'll back down first? The side that is "choosing" to do this.
All Canada wants is for the US to honour agreements it has already signed.
All allies can get what they need off each other. Necessity is the mother of invention. We don’t need the US for much after that. By then they won’t be so threatening.
How stupid. Here’s how - The entire free world takes advantage of our isolationism selling to Canada what we use to, buying from Canada what we use to plus. Win Win for them! Mom Trump gets laid off from Walmart and Popa Trumps Truck bed is getting rusty while he gets drunk in the garage.
The cards are thus: (I shouldn’t be divulging but they’re so stupid it’s fine) we buy pretty replaceable stuff from the US and a ton of it. The US buys hard to replace resources (hence cosying up to Ruzzia). We’ve already self-tariffed with boycotts- so the rest of the plan is build and diversify.
It’s a damn good plan. As a Canadian in the hellhole next door, I approve. I buy Canadian and European when I can here and I do not buy more American made than I have to. The pinch won’t take long to be felt.
We need to develop options for services, particular in Health Care where most electronic medical records systems used by Hospitals are purchased from U.S. companies. We need a national strategy to develop our own in house systems to break the dependence and provide options.
No one wins in a trade war, but unfortunately the far-right are too thick to understand that. Hopefully the EU will protect Canada from the worst effects of this tantrum.
Geoff Garin said to stop calling these guys weird, but they gotta weird poker fetish for two marks you could really make bank from. Vance has never played cards, he's just a dork.
First of all, I apologize (but I promise you I had nothing to do with it). Second, I cannot explain what it is with these idiots and card games. Maybe it's a 3 card monte thing.
I think it's 6, but that doesn't include the pages-long list of failed "products." His current bankruptcy will dwarf that, however, and as always, the American taxpayer will pick up the tab, probably for decades. That is a nice pick-me-up in the morning: thanks for not being American.
It’s weird to know that CANADA was one of our major trade partners and allies and the FASCIST FOOLS in THE TURD REICH came along to try to dismantle it all so Putin can gain imperialist ground…
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The "elbows up" phrase you keep seeing means, "fight hard and dirty, check them in the corners, take the penalty but black their eyes, knock out their teeth and make them afraid to screw with our team ever again." It's a hockey fight. We aren't playing cards.
Canadians have already tanked the tourist industry in US for 2025, the whiskey & other spirits sector, the bidding by US firms for contracts in the public services of CDA…let’s see, what other cards did we deal?
That ship has now sailed. They will not be able to participate in almost any future opportunities for rebates. Nice to see all other EV included except TESLER
And Canada is really good at survival. In fact, Margaret Atwood says that's our trope. And I'm willing to suffer to not give in. How many Americans are willing to suffer for the orange menace and his cult of idiots?
Lets not forget that if he is on a military base is because nobody wanted to host him in greenland for any fucking reason
They gonna start looking around for friend
And he think's he's a great negociator. Does he play pôker... and don't understand a quadruple is better than a full. And He's gonna be sad when he lose.
It’s not a game and this economic warfare was created entirely by Trump. He’s so stupid that he thinks we’re that stupid. VP Bowman acts like his master is merely responding to a hostile Canadian situation. Neither of them seem to have any clue as to how international trade works.
It's probably true that Canada probably can't win a trade war with the US, as JD Vance says. However, the current Canada/US is over. Canada is choosing to get off the battlefield. It's diversifying and building new trade and security partnerships, especially with Europe and Asia.
We are not in a war Vance you dipshit. We just don't want to trade with you at all. No need to negotiate just fuck off. Get your oil, critical minerals, nickel, Uranium, potash, electricity somewhere else.
We have a world class economist in charge who got us to a soft landing during the financial crisis, instead of a dude who bankrupted casinos, who thinks 1890s econ is hot shit.
If they don't need us, what is this even about? Yeah, it's a lie.
Canada could *exempt CA registered and owned farms? Then, CA would take a page out of the FOTUS playbook and do it whether it is, say, Constitutional or legal.
*- Spitballing with the 80% premonition of it not being feasible…
Canada alone, probably not.
But when the EU, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, and all of the other countries he applied tariffs to join in on Canada's side, I think that is another story all together.
Why isn't he wearing a suit? Why is he cos playing as Zelenskyy? Why does he even dare to have an opinion on a sovereign nation that wants nothing to do with him or his garbage country? He is more unlikable by the day, & he wasn't likable to begin with. In the words of Greenland, NO.
These guys want 1950s society using 1890 methodology. They forget that the modern world provides dozens of emerging markets and a global trade system intertwined with decades old relationships. The US is not leading the charge of an Industrial Revolution anymore. They are competing for relevancy!
Personally, I wouldn't be disrespecting a country that had a Russian secret service officer assassinated inside a high security, secret service building, in Moscow, using a hammer, and then the perpetrator escaped undetected.
Funny how he & Trump are always negging us, saying we don't have anything they need, or don't have any "cards", when the reason they want to annex us is so they can steal our cards.
Unlucky for them, 🇨🇦s are much brighter than their voters.
There are a number of things he didn't factor in, such as 🇨🇦 removing the interprovincial trade barriers adding more to the 🇨🇦 economy than he's taking away, and 🇨🇦 having more free trade partners than the 🇺🇲 has, which 🇨🇦 hadn't been taking full advantage of.
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this is serious
clown car jd doesn’t realise this YET
And is he actually trying to dress a bit like Zelenskyy did on his visit, despite all the fuss they made about suits? 😂
Trump is a greedy bully & coverts subservience.
He wants their resources that aren’t for sale, this is his idea of forcing negotiations.
Hands OFF Canada.
#ElbowsUp
We're playing for our continued existence, Americans are playing for the ego of a foolish man-child.
"just watch me"
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🇨🇦 is the 🇺🇸 largest trading partner (& 🇺🇸 traveller) larger than China Japan France & UK COMBINED
No travel to US from 🇨🇦 📉75%
No purcases of any 🇺🇸 goods
Retalitory tariffs maybe 💡 lights out?
ANGER 🇨🇦 DETERMINATION
🇨🇦 MASTERS OF OUR OWN 🇨🇦 COUNTRY🇨🇦
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#ElbowsUp
The order of play reverses the order of turns and is used as metaphorical.
Reminds me of RW-SCOTUS nominees and their “settled law” lie.
For Gods sake, they don't have the cards so they should accept being bullied?
We hate your guts Vance! A big fuck you from Canada 🖕🇨🇦💪
There is more to international diplomacy than numbers on a spreadsheet l.
These guys think they are playing Civilization.
Y’all have forgotten
The rest of the world
Is not playing games.
"Holy Jackass Batman."
🇨🇦
#elbowsup
As a matter of fact, Vance does not have the cards nor the intelligence to deal with Canada.
.... okay, shut up everyone.
Don't talk about this, just read.
Who wants to bet on the number of times we hear things about "Cards?"
He wouldn’t dare come to Canada & say that to our face!
He’s only brave (like he was with Zelensky in the White House), unless he has a room full of supporters & daddy Trump is holding his hand!
Assholes
Goopy
Again
Where did they decide global trade policy and national security purposes were a freaking CARD GAME?!?!
CANADA isn't playing.
UKRAINE isn't playing.
GREENLAND isn't playing.
PANAMA isn't playing.
Why is the Bankrupt Casino Owner playing?
Reality tops lies.
All Canada wants is for the US to honour agreements it has already signed.
Watch for a laugh
https://youtu.be/mZJc9ksu1AM?si=ssSKhHRyVpnIEQcu
Bully/abuser mentality
Maybe it's not about winning an exchange.
Maybe it'll be about ensuring it hurts your donors and voter base who have to shoulder all the costs just to maintain your pointless petty trade wars.
Maybe all your other partners you're attacking get the same idea.
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#ElbowsUp
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ELBOWS UP
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##CanadaStrong 🇨🇦
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/canada-freezes-teslas-43m-ev-rebate-after-suspicious-sales-surge-bans-future-subsidies/
They are determined to cause an actual war.
It is not just about trade.
They gonna start looking around for friend
JD is clearly trying to be like Trump (“don’t have the cards” is verbatim from Zelenskyy meeting). It’s silly and pathetic.
Idiocy.
We are not in a war Vance you dipshit. We just don't want to trade with you at all. No need to negotiate just fuck off. Get your oil, critical minerals, nickel, Uranium, potash, electricity somewhere else.
And you do not have dear friends in Canada
We have a world class economist in charge who got us to a soft landing during the financial crisis, instead of a dude who bankrupted casinos, who thinks 1890s econ is hot shit.
If they don't need us, what is this even about? Yeah, it's a lie.
Stop exports on potash and the US will watch their crop production cut in half.
All those red state farms growing corn, soy and wheat, and all the produce from California will see 15-30% less yield.
Forward-looking data shows a 70–75% drop in Canada–U.S. flight bookings
Lagging indicators like retail, auto, and housing data will confirm the damage in the months ahead
WSJ calls this “Dumbest trade war” ever
*- Spitballing with the 80% premonition of it not being feasible…
I really appreciate it. Cheers Wilfried
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But when the EU, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, and all of the other countries he applied tariffs to join in on Canada's side, I think that is another story all together.
It takes at least two to have a trade war. Sometimes one party just walks Lumbergs you.
or
They just continuing lying to the american people and are well aware of how tariffs works.
A few short term gains , but overall everybody loses.
That is EXACTLY why trump threatened us if we helped Canada with counter tarifs...
Canada has friends and those cards Trump is loosing!
Those cards ARE A STRAIGHT FLUSH!
We (europe) WILL stand with our friends. They can rely on us...
First russia fucked us and now the USA... we are passisve BUT we are not weak!
Try us!
Our economy was built for the best interests of the US not Canada’s
PM Carney has now said the old relationship is OVER
We are now able to diversify our customers & industries. We can build a country that is in the best interests of Canadians
But only if we elect Carney
Military & monetary power are the only forms that register in his narrow mind.
Funny how he & Trump are always negging us, saying we don't have anything they need, or don't have any "cards", when the reason they want to annex us is so they can steal our cards.
Unlucky for them, 🇨🇦s are much brighter than their voters.
We're also a functioning democracy & a beacon of freedom.
This is why they covet our country & see us as a threat.