Krugman nails it. “…efforts to find some kind of economic justification for Trump’s Canada-hatred have the feeling of desperate efforts…” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... - ThreadSky

gmbutts.bsky.social • 12 hours ago

Krugman nails it.

“…efforts to find some kind of economic justification for Trump’s Canada-hatred have the feeling of desperate efforts…”

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/trump-hates-canada-for-its-decency?r=59ujy

Comments

jimcashel.bsky.social•8 hours ago

"And there’s always the possibility that Trump knows how big Canada looks on standard maps, unaware both of the way that its land area is exaggerated by the Mercator projection and the fact that much of it is tundra, and thinks, “Real estate!”

(Same issue with Greenland. Blame Gerardus Mercator.)

wpaulrowland.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Read that this morning. All accurate

katiecannon.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Translation:

Canada’s government creates its currency to buy more public goods & services than we do

jocitro.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I so miss decency.

timfra.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Sanity

dawnalene.bsky.social•10 hours ago

He sure does

caro-s.bsky.social•11 hours ago

This is entirely consistent with NPD which seeks to villainize and punish those who do not “feed” them or those they consider to be threats.

williamthecat.bsky.social•1 hour ago

He's pissed because Canadians removed his name from the Vancouver and Toronto buildings during his last administration because he was such a douche. He's been waiting to get back at them for it.

ceecee045.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I applaud the lack of the word president in Trudeau's address this morning. Verbally not wearing a suit 😉👏

justliddleoleme.bsky.social•12 hours ago

« Canada can’t concede to U.S. demands, even if it were in a mood to do so (which it very much isn’t) because there aren’t any coherent U.S. demands; Canada has done nothing wrong! »

mloa.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I think he hates Trudeau with a passion.
The final tariff implementation came just after Trudeau was welcomed at the EU meeting, seen warmly greeting and then talking with Zelenskyy, and then photgraphed at Sandringham making the king laugh.
Everything Trudeau is highlights everything Trump isn't.

lisamikolajczyk.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Well, there was that time that Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, & Boris Johnson were caught on camera making fun of Trump behind his back, mocking him.
Trump is still bitter about it.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/12/04/nato-summit-trudeau-macron-johnson-appear-to-joke-about-trump.html

jkincanada.bsky.social•50 minutes ago

An here I thought it was because he hated JT for being everything he isn’t

captncanada.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It’s because Trump is a Russian asset. Next question.

peggyblair.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Well here's a thought. How about if he's weakening Ukraine's allies economically so that they can't support Ukraine, in order to help Russia, and also with a view to weakening us so he can annex our country by force?

canadiansheepdog.bsky.social•12 hours ago

@peggyblair.bsky.social Yes. It's all happening faster than I thought it would.

peggyblair.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Read Curtis Yarvin's Wikipedia page -- Thiel, Bannon and Vance are followers. He believes democracy should be destroyed and that it needs to happen fast once a party takes power. Destroy gov't, education, media, install a techno monarchy. It's happening in real time.