We don’t want corporate media to define the message for America.Our political reps need to to be telling the real story - every time TrumpMusk breaks the law, endangers Americans, rips us off- they need to stand up & call out his bullsht “Dont allow him to convince you he has power he doesn’t have”.
IT'S A SCAM, ALL THE MONEY FROM THESE NEW TARIFFS GOE TO ELON MUSK AT D.O.G.E. !! CHECK IT OUT !! IT'S A D.O.G.E./ELON SCAM. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK ALL YOUR POSTS ARE HELPFUL AND APPRECIATED
He already did. It's done. This shoudl frighten us all and what else does this twerp have in store. I am concerned he can get into all our aviation systems and hack the planes and helicopters- that Blackhawk can be guided remotely
It's a heist. Trump distracting with tariffs, billionaire controlled media feed non stop stories about tariffs ignoring Musk and his team of tech hackers taking over the Federal government systems. They will bleed the US Treasury dry while laundering through other billionaires = This is an Oligarchy
Imagine a new version of the Spanish TV show Money Heist
(Casa De Papel) and its happening at the treasury. Hell the main character of the series, Berlin even looks like the Latin versiin of Musk.
Yep, they want to turn us into Somalia. I truly hope CA secedes at this point. Sick of subsidizing assholes, and truly do NOT want to pay taxes that go straight to Elon's pocket
I couldn’t agree more. They control Congress & the courts. No one can see any way out of this mess. If California secedes the other blue states will follow. Let the remainder collapse under their own corruption.
ya got that right. This older Albertan wants you ALL to know the depth of our concern. How will this end? Will he overpower us? Will we be defeated with not a shot fired? Anything is a possibility. Anything! This man has to be dealt with...somehow, somewhere, some day.. & the sooner the better
I totally agree. I think baby tRump is throwing a temper tantrum because he wants Canada to become part of the U.S. and Canada told him to go fuck himself.
"Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy but by sophisticated networks relying on KLEPTOCRATIC financial structures, a complex of security services—military, paramilitary, police—and technological experts who provide surveillance, propaganda, and disinformation." - Anne Applebaum
Vonshitsinpants may have other things in mind but it may only be that he wants to push Canada, by hurting their economy, to cave into his tyrannical demand to become the 51st state.
If hurting their economy isn't enough, he may resort to refusing to protect Canada if they're invaded by Russia.
Canada and Mexico are diversions. Cover ups and cloak and dagger shit going on.
Musk has his hands in everything while 47 is barking orders.
Distract and confuse to take the attention off what's really going on.
Would be great if someone figured it out before it's too late.
You mean the gutting of the federal government and the elimination of checks and balances? The seizing of authoritarian power? I don't know why you would have that impression.
Your definition of a smokescreen is our LIVES as a Canadian. WTF are u doing… I am seeing shit from Americans in a form of resistance. Sorry. Not sorry…
Maybe the takeover of the federal payment system by an unelected billionaire fascist? The downloading of the private information of every citizen of this nation to said fascist billionaire’s personal servers??!!??
This is an attack on Canada. Things will get terrible for workers on both sides of the border. It is not bullshit. People will get hurt. Trump will do his worst, and Canada will do it's best.
He wants you to revolt so he could send in the Proud Boys to beat up people...this way, Trump can send in State Troops and declare...Marshall Law... (martial) ... after that, good luck getting rid of him
Yeah, it feels like a distraction from something bigger. The U.S. and Canada have one of the most integrated economies in the worldstarting a trade war with an ally like that doesn’t make sense unless there’s another agenda at play. Whatever’s going on, it’s definitely not about fair trade.
No it's not. He literally wants to annex us. We're gonna need you guys to start fucking some shit up on your side of the border. Sorry for booing your anthem.
Don't be sorry. He co-opts symbols and legacies for his own ends without regard to anything else. We know you're booing Trump, not the country for which the anthem stands.
E.g. This earlier totally hollow and staged display is revolting. He might as well have masturbated with the flag:
We are so sorry about Dementia Grandpa’s annexation threats, we told him to stfu, but you know how they get around sundown. Please feel free to smack him; elder abuse is generally frowned upon but exceptions are allowable for extreme cases like these.
Frankly, Americans should be booing that terrible anthem which is all about war. Got a solid tune behind it, but listen to the words and it's pretty awful.
Extortion as a prelude for taking some of the sovereignty. He’s attempting to hobble them economically and then he will come in and say OK I’ll loosen the noose if you agree to submit to certain US laws.
This is 100% on Trump. When this falls apart badly and negatively, Fox News, Karoline Leavitt, Scott Jennings, and any other Trump minion can't try to blame "DEI" and/or "woke" for the disastrous fallout Trump himself created. If they do, they're calling Trump a DEI hire.
Yup! @asharangappa.bsky.social has a pretty plausible theory as to what’s really going on right now. Musk/X takeover of the whole financial structure of the IS federal government.
I'm beginning to wonder if someone is playing a Civilization game and giving Rump advice. I mean "Golden Age"? Tariffs? Trade Wars? Threatening to invaded, buy land or countries?
I think Krugman's assessment of it was nail on the head. t is a narcissist. these folks like to dominate people. that's what it's about, quiet simply. no matter that they'll be all sorts of damage to all concerned, except himself as he's made of teflon.
It's about the Treasury takeover. Needs focus. If reports are even half true the law breaking is extraordinary. Elon's hacker crews are running rampant in the payment systems.
Exactly, that’s been their playbook all along, division taps into a fake but useful nationalism, a loud mouth bully is the smokescreen for the tech nerds and the Christian nationalists to carve up the country, the magas are the idiots he used to get him in the seat although he secretly detests them
Chief Dumb Ass Trump and Co-Chief Dumb Ass Musk think this will “persuade” Canadians to become the “51st state”
Never underestimate Canada 🇨🇦 we have always been your best ally and trade partner.
Don’t mistake our niceness for weakness
Just remember, that good decent Americans who did not vote for this orang f*ck, will suffer. It is sane Americans who understand that Canada is an ally and trade partner.
The point being, that during these times, humanity can care for and understand humanity. I hate that both Canadians and Americans will likely face the consequences of Trump’s stupidity.
Please don’t assume that what isn’t happening in the streets is an indicator of our outrage. There is very serious concern that as soon as we take to the streets he’ll declare martial law. Then we are more screwed. We need to figure out what to do, and fast.
It's not a bullshit trade war. It's happening and it will do terrible harm to both the Canadian and the American economies. This is nefarious shit. Sending both countries into economic decline will impact other nations all without lowering the cost of a single egg.
No one is arguing that the TW isn't bullshit or damaging. But it will be easy to use this to distract from more fundamental damage being done. Recall how the "price of eggs" was used to distract from Project 2025 and more.
The US is a huge market for trade but they are not the only market - the US is making their own bed but Canada may be able to pick up other countries to support their needs
You betcha.
It's a grift of SOME sort, you can be sure of that.
They kindly fired the watchdogs and ended programs that were investigating them, so we need dedicated leakers and independent JOURNALISTS willing to unearth what's REALLY going on.
Kinda like in his first term how he lined his pockets with all his revenue from Mar A Lago everytime he golfed there -bringing in dozens of guests, charging rooms & food to “the govt” while he profited. WE paid for that. Now he’s doing it on a much larger scale
it doesn't feel like a smoke screen from up here in Canada, sis. AT ALL. The New York Times said Trump was using force on "recalcitrant countries" We are NOT a "recalcitrant country." That bitch Trump means this shit and it's not a smokescreen. We are living it.
Elon takes over the finances just as 100's of billions of tariffs about to start pouring in. not a coincidence. Trump is going to use tariffs as his personal piggy bank
“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.”
He doesn’t, the same way he doesn’t understand that Hannibal Lecter is not an asylum seeker. He’s incompetent but surrounded by people who have been planning long and hard to take over the government with their ideology. He’s just the perfect hateful clown show.
Bin Laden felt the destruction of the Towers would lead to a wrecked economy and our downfall. They did do financial damage and mired us in long Expensive wars.
Who would have thought the real damage would come from capitalist pigs like Leon and Trumpty Dumpty…?
@johnfugelsang.bsky.social
It is all a deflection and distraction from the massive grift. He doesn't care about the Panama Canal or Greenland, or anything other than enriching himself.
Like dismantling the government. Opening prision in 3rd world counties for immigrants and trumps enemies. They are moving faster than the nazis ever did. Right now president musk has ALL YOUR PERSONAL INFO. He’s dangerous.
Elon crashed his rocket
Got cut off from his sugar daddy (us)
Now needs a different way into our cash. He gave Trump the election
Trump owes him us.
Our treasury and our labor.
Best description I've seen all day. Musk is 2/3 into his theft of our money from the Treasury. Fort Knox will be next. Theft on the biggest scale in history.
He’s trying to weaken the left, leaning parties in both Canada and Mexico in order to facilitate the agendas of far right wing elements in those countries.
It is all smoke and mirrors so that a national emergency can be called by little Donnie and he can declare martial law to seize even more power. I really hate the doom and gloom he is forcing us into.
They already have access to the US Treasury. They have control of the most powerful military in the world. They're taking control of the leadership in the DOJ. They have majority in the Senate and the house. They have blessings from the Supreme Court. Have we already lost to the fascist?
The generation that fought WW2 grew up with a saying, made famous during their Depression-era childhoods, that went like this : If this keeps up, I'll strike a match to the whole damn thing, and walk away.
Until we all smell smoke, walking away, it ain't over....
30% of the country are clueless 35 % think any shake up is good, 35 % are with you in spirit, but most are resigned to watch it happen. Fingers crossed that democracy survives.
I think he's beyond tricks and distractions. He is doing everything he said he would. He is enacting Project 2025. He says he wants Canada, Mexico, Panama and Greenland to be part of the United States. He wants Manifest Destiny.
You have a psychopathic modern Hitler on your hands.
I get that - although even Project 2025 didn’t say anything about imperialistic expansion.
The reason I say it’s a distraction is that he’s coming out with nonsense that has no chance of success. He would instantly lose support domestically. MAGA is not angry at those countries.
The only book Trump ever
read in his whole miserable
life was the one of Hitler’s speeches he kept by his bed, as verified by his first of three wives, Ivana.
There is probably an auction of our national intelligence secrets going on somewhere. Remember Nancy Pelosi addressing the Felon: "With you, all roads lead to Putin!"
Yeah. Probably some stock market voodoo bullshit. And for what reason? Zero, nada,zilch. ‘Cuz some very, I mean these people are the top people. These best people, who like me, they started liking me now, they told me about the word tariff. It’s a beautiful word.
Privatisation or elimination of government infrastructure and safety nets. Just wait till you start hearing terms about ss disability saying "these people are unproductive drains on state resources."
My ex military son says it feels like something involving the military. We invade/attack someone or join in someone's fight. I've seen some posts saying trying to bring on a depression along the lines of the great depression so the current currency can be switched to crypto.
He just attacked Somalia then brought up civilians claiming "absolutely no civilians were harmed, not one." Which leads me to believe he killed Somalian civilians.
The plan was for Canada to respond by shutting off power exports so trump could declare it an act of war. Then he could invade with the true purpose of securing the oil being exposed by the polar melt. That whole Canada as a 51st state thing wasn’t bluster. It was the plan
They should. But we can’t be sure if they will. They are spoon fed Fox News and the American military propaganda network. It’s easier to get them to go after brown people though so I’m nervous for Panama right now. What’s happening there is being covered up with tariff news
There are certain, um, requirements. You must offer universal healthcare, dental care, affordable childcare, great & safe public schools, gun control, a strong social safety net, and you must promote DEI values. (We can help with all this.)
We 💙s in red states feel gutted as of course our states r not included in this picture 😢 We can’t all move to blue states. We’d be left behind unless there’s another way!
I grew up on the 🇨🇦border. Family came from 🇨🇦. I call 🇨🇦 my 2nd country. I ❤️🇨🇦
Im sad today, but I won’t give up! 💔
It is obvious to most Canadians. Trump wants control of our water, oil, lumber and mineral resources. He thinks he is softening us up for trade talks. Hopefully, the Americans who have to suffer through this trade war will get Trump's attention.
There is no getting Chump’s attention. We either get support from a handful of Repug lawmakers in both houses and the courts or America and the world suffers.
Golden opportunity for Canada to increase trade with EU and Asia, given advancements in recent years with shipping technology. Canada needs to modernize its ports quickly though.
Trump is distracting, they are doing worse things that they are trying to get away with. To have these issues front and centre, it allows them to be more bold in lining their billionaire pockets with more, while making sure the people have less.
Truth. While they're literally painting-over the wall art at the FBI which says "honor" and "inclusion", Musk has hijacked the Federal payment system and locked out the rest of the govt from the databases. No Black History Month? Look: he fired half the fuckin' FBI, like Kash Patel said he was gonna
Noon February 5 at all 50 state capitols, there will be protests of this take-over of our democracy. If you can’t attend, please demand that your congressional representatives DO SOMETHING!
I don't think there's a smokescreen any more. I think they're just doing everything out in the open now. There's an obvious and direct connection between the trade war and the new Sovereign Wealth Fund created by the new External Revenue Service. 1/n
This fund will be filled with tariff money (which is effectively a tax on Americans), that Elon and Trump and their friends will then fight over from the Sovereign Wealth Fund.
It’s a power play. Why impose a 25% tariff on Canadian and Mexican goods but only 10% on China? I believe he thinks it will pressure China to lower export costs, but in reality, it could backfire—hurting American consumers and businesses while failing to achieve meaningful trade gains.
During Trump’s 1st term he tariffed China. In return China tariffed US soybeans. US soybean farmers were hurts. Trump then had to bailout the farmers. Brazil is benefitting from the tariffs. Yet these farmers have short memory and voted for him again.
Just one long nightmarish reality tv show feeding the malignant narcissist in the WH. He will declare martial law to quell the unrest. And, as mad as I am at the Democrats for standing there with their mouths agape, I am LIVID at the sycophantic Republicans who are putting their careers over country
Absolutely! Our challenge is to stay focused on the really sinister agenda. Not the ridiculous fluff (Greenland, Panama, giant faucets) that he tosses to the crowd like paper towels.
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(Casa De Papel) and its happening at the treasury. Hell the main character of the series, Berlin even looks like the Latin versiin of Musk.
Things are going to be rough on this continent for a while.
If hurting their economy isn't enough, he may resort to refusing to protect Canada if they're invaded by Russia.
Musk has his hands in everything while 47 is barking orders.
Distract and confuse to take the attention off what's really going on.
Would be great if someone figured it out before it's too late.
Source: American.
E.g. This earlier totally hollow and staged display is revolting. He might as well have masturbated with the flag:
The dude has dead eyes. DEAD. EYES.
Never underestimate Canada 🇨🇦 we have always been your best ally and trade partner.
Don’t mistake our niceness for weakness
What the dumb ass followers don't see, is that trump and his oligarchs only want to drain the gov't Treasury.
kakistocracy /kăk″ĭ-stŏk′rə-sē, kä″kĭ-/ noun
Government by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.
It's a grift of SOME sort, you can be sure of that.
They kindly fired the watchdogs and ended programs that were investigating them, so we need dedicated leakers and independent JOURNALISTS willing to unearth what's REALLY going on.
it's another sideshow distraction
Who would have thought the real damage would come from capitalist pigs like Leon and Trumpty Dumpty…?
@johnfugelsang.bsky.social
Canadians are nice but they're not that nice. We will not roll over.
Shit. Already happening.
he's probably monetizing the tariffs for his own personal benefit.
Got cut off from his sugar daddy (us)
Now needs a different way into our cash. He gave Trump the election
Trump owes him us.
Our treasury and our labor.
My guess is they are gearing up for unrest.
Anyone know where Erik Prince is?
It’s like that
Until we all smell smoke, walking away, it ain't over....
It’s a Heist.
You have a psychopathic modern Hitler on your hands.
The reason I say it’s a distraction is that he’s coming out with nonsense that has no chance of success. He would instantly lose support domestically. MAGA is not angry at those countries.
read in his whole miserable
life was the one of Hitler’s speeches he kept by his bed, as verified by his first of three wives, Ivana.
I’ve been reading P2025, looking for the next injustice…
What do you think is coming?
Fuck that....
He's no magician and we see through his bullshit.
There are certain, um, requirements. You must offer universal healthcare, dental care, affordable childcare, great & safe public schools, gun control, a strong social safety net, and you must promote DEI values. (We can help with all this.)
Please, JOIN US!
🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸
I grew up on the 🇨🇦border. Family came from 🇨🇦. I call 🇨🇦 my 2nd country. I ❤️🇨🇦
Im sad today, but I won’t give up! 💔
I’m down with this
He now has ALL and EVERYONES
Personal information. Wtf
Trump is Putin’s puppet.
This is step 1
During Trump’s 1st term he tariffed China. In return China tariffed US soybeans. US soybean farmers were hurts. Trump then had to bailout the farmers. Brazil is benefitting from the tariffs. Yet these farmers have short memory and voted for him again.
..and it WILL be televised!