Canada has been irrationally and unjustly attacked by Trump. I would guess that 55 to 65% of Americans are going to take Canada‘s side. This deepens the risks within this country. This is the damage done by our lying treasonous president.
The hardest part of being a national leader these days has got to be fielding questions about Trump and not just going “I mean, have you seen the man?”
It felt like he did everything but say, “Americans, we love you but get rid of this murderous buffoon.” It felt more like the start of an intervention than a trade war.
We are very embarrassed that Trump is an idiot and we are sad that the majority of our country did not vote! Elections have consequences, and that is why we have Trump. Don't give up Americans. We are totally better than Trump!
In simpler terms, this is how he gets the low and middle class to fund his tax cuts for the billionaire boys club because in MAGA minds, “tariff“ and “taxes“ are completely different things.
Yes. It doesn't matter how many times one explains this to some people or how many economists talk about how disastrous this will be.
Politicians in both parties have at one time or another been enamored by tariffs and people don't seem to understand that those get passed on to consumers.
The silver lining is that this is probably one of the few things that can discredit Trump with his base. They aren't going to care about anything unless it hurts them personally.
According to Houston all US liquor is off the NSLC shelves on Feb 4. Trump fucks around, Indiana and Kentucky find out. Fortunately Nova Scotia brewing and distilling are great and I'm psyched to try more Japanese whiskies.
One weird thing is almost all the beers are more or less the same price here, which removes like 60% of the beer buying angst I used to have in California.
When Trudeau said that ‘we have fought and died alongside you’, tears ran down my face. He spoke and acted like a true leader. Good grief this is so difficult to watch unfold. Harris voters DID NOT FA, but we sure are about to FO 😩😭
Part of me feels this direct message, this sentence, was also a subtle message of Trudeau’s assertion for Canadian support should the need arise, for the people in the US, though he is soon leaving PM post, it still is nice to hear.
Becky, those of us in the US who don't support this monster are horrified. We are now the most isolated country in the world. Even when he is gone, how will the world trust us again to make good decisions and elect true leaders? I'm beyond despair...
I'm so sorry for all of you trying to stand up to this bully, but you're absolutely right. The damage to your reputation worldwide is going to last many years beyond this presidency. We canceled our summer holiday to Alaska earlier today and I've been planning and saving for years. 😭
As our Pmjt said - w
E helped get American hostages out of Iran- we helped during your hurricanes fires etc. During 911 we opened our airspace and guided your planes to safety and then opened our homes - recently we helped CA to fight catastrophic fires.
- and now you spit in our face!!
I'm cool with it. I won't miss what I don't have.
Plus a lot of us "Poors" can McGyver the shit out of anything if we need to. Dinner? A pot of water and a box of pasta and I'll give you this:
Someone prove there really will be tariffs, or will it be an open check for the billionaires who bought the government charging whatever they please excuse as covid was; prices were still doubling 3 years after supply chain BS.
I am living in a red state and look forward to both Canada and Mexico giving Governor Abbott a taste of bitter medicine. Hopefully, he will be paying through the nose for it.
Due to unfortunate circumstances, I too am in a Ruby Red State😢 Disgusting that books are being banned and they want GUNS IN SCHOOLS!!! Sick
Sick Sick!
Your state going suffer the most under that manchild demands. He took you laborer force, he going cut social programs, cut green renewable energy... the list go on. And now 25% on good form Mexico.... and yet he ALWAY win your state in the general election. Good job hurting yourself.
All states will suffer. So prepare and when your red neighbors complain, make sure you have a loud voice letting them know - it is their fault. Fight with truth and policy. This is about oil, not drugs or immigration.
Folks in all states will suffer regardless of political affiliation. If there is such a thing as breaking through the kool-aid insanity then I’m in; it would result in an a brighter light at the end of the tunnel. Now, it’s not so easy to even conjure up an image of the end of the tunnel.
Our GOVERNMENT doesn't care!! They don't care if we freeze and die! Trump cares SO little, he said he was going to sue the parents of skaters who died for the price of the Blackhawk for having them out too late. DO u get it?
I try to stay positive with my comments and replies but this is the dumbest rumor I've heard in a long while. This crap doesn't help. It confuses and enrages people. There's plenty to dislike Trump over but spreading BS like this is disgusting.
The trade war was unilaterally, without rhyme or reason, started by FOTUS; but it is the American people that will needlessly suffer the most. Canada will suffer too. We are all caught in this whirlwind of chaos because someone’s EGO needs ATTENTION all the time!
Yes. Exactly where my thoughts were… us Americans will still buy the stuff. The increased price won’t stop us. It’ll just bankrupt us while Trump takes in that tax. And we have a relentlessly stupid wannabe Hitler in our White House. At least your guy knew when to allow new representation in.
I liked the reporter's question which was something equivalent to "What do you think this is REALLY about." (i.e. 1% of fentanyl & illegal crossings doesn't seem sufficient reason for such a draconian act by Trump. It seems infantile to me, something like proving that mine is bigger than yours.
It’s all about Vlad wanting both side of the North West Passage. That is the same reason he wants Greenland. Russia is on the other side of Greenland and Canada. The ice is melting he is taking Vlads’ calls. It’s about punishing us because we are in the way of king babies victory dance with daddy
Trump raising tariffs will cost us. 🙄
Canada and Mexico raising tariffs will cost us. 🙄
This is why people not afraid to use their brain ignore liberals.
I live in Canada. We've been friends with Americans for as long as we've been countries. We've had issues in the past that we've confronted and moved beyond. But this economic warfare that Trump has vollied against us is disturbing because it's not based on reason. It's political. Trump is chaos.
He knows how to get an audience‘s attention. The problem is the people who voted for this terrorist of a president have a severe case of conscientious bias, and will only see him as someone trying to disrupt their hero. Talk about the dumbing down of America.
You assume that their stated goals are their actual goals. They aren't.
Trump is trying to wreck the USA. He doesn't care who gets hurt. He doesn't care that people have already died. He is trying to destroy everything so a fascist gang of billionaires can rule over the ashes, forever.
I didn't vote for Trudeau in the last election, but I will never be a Conservative voter. New leadership may allow either a new Liberal government or at least keeping the Conservatives to a minority government.
I understand. As an American I never took the time to fully understand politics up there, although I realize pretty much everyone has to understand ours. I'm here in solidarity with all of my friends and I'm sorry a seeming minority of us have brought this about.
It was time. Unfortunately, he brought us through the pandemic well. We had 1/3 the number of deaths than our US neighbour. However, this led to inflation (although not just in Canada) but the Cons seemed poised for a majority government.
They will only belive if it hits on their door. Ignorance and competition in in their genes. I wonder when he starts a senseless war. For now he has this at home
That would be the dummer part of Americans. The smart ones would rather not spend more of our money on an unnecessary trade war with countries we share a border with.
Street protest is good but, you can really hurt them by staying off ALL platforms of the big tech goons standing on the stage with him. No viewers on X, Meta products, etc = no advertising revenue for 1 week would cripple their business model.
It would also benefit the mental health of people!!
Again, you can't expect working Americans to show up with 3 days notice. Missing a day of work could mean missing a payment on your house/rent or car. It's not smart to alienate the working class during this time.
The clown doesn’t care about anybody but his own little worshipers, meaning those that give him money. Pretty soon the people that voted for him are going to understand. They made a big mistake.
As long as the outcome of this chaos is getting Trump out of office and the majority out of the Republicans hands, I will sacrifice. You do what you have to Justin....
As an American, I’m starting to not want to be here anymore. There are of course friends, my job, and my partner. That said, I’m both ashamed and terrified of the decaying humanoid and his goons going out of their way to destroy lives.
It would nice to have a leader who directly addresses the American people instead of equivocating about DEI and wokeness(Trudeau isn't even good, he just isn't a crybaby)
With Trump bent on destroying American research in particular Canada could do so much damage to the US by offering American researchers asylum, basically brain draining the US.
It would be a real shame if SpaceX and Tesla employees quit en masse. Definitely don't encourage that to happen and see how fast Musk falls out of favor.
Trump understands this isn't TikTok,right?He can't just ruin the economy like the algorithms, then hand it back; sticky from his greasy KFC bucket clinchers, expecting a hero's reception.
Because, he's either trying that or he is intentionally crippling our economy for nefarious purposes unbeknownst
Because unlike politicians here, he knows who he’s talking to and what is truly at stake.
Politicians here are in it for their own self preservation. Democrats are literally singing like this is just one big powwow while Republicans are systematically destroying everything they can.
Canada's Justin Trudeau is finally doing the Hugh Grant scene in the movie Love Actually, to a U.S. bully, Trump with his own, justified FU retaliatory counter-tariffs and "calls on Canadians to choose Canadian goods, to forgo Florida orange juice, Kentucky bourbon, or holidays in the United States"
I am Canadian. I don’t particularly like Trudeau, but he is right. It’s unfortunate that this useless shit happens, but it’s the only way to respond to 2025 Hitler, unless Americans get rid of this ass hole themselves.
Most of what Trump does is legal under his powers as President and what he does that is illegal is being taken up in Federal courts (for now). It's what he is doing could be considered an abuse of that power and terrible leadership that is harming innocent people.
Which, let's be real. Probably won't happen until it's way too late. We'll be on the brink of destruction before anyone even THINKS of trying to take him and his cronies out.
I think about it constantly but I’m a stay at home mom with a baby, so I’m left hoping my countrymen share the same heart as me and cut the head off the snake.
(1/2) By whatever means necessary, tyranny needs to be removed from United States government. In the preamble of the constitution is included, “—whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it—“
(2/2) Obviously in a ‘perfect world’ this would entail detainment and incarceration, considering the innumerable crimes that have been, and continue to be committed.
Like….paying off student loans after the Supreme Court specifically said it was unconstitutional?
That kind of tyranny? I didn’t see you going for the head of the snake.
I know I'm in a liberal bubble but I really do think /most/ Americans agree that Canada has every right to respond by taxing and/or boycotting our goods and doing what you can to hurt American business & consumers. This is all so fucking stupid. Nobody wins here.
The Traitor Trump and his South African Nazi puppet Master Elon Musk have infiltrated our government with the intent to destroy our constitution, our democratic system and our financial well being as a nation. We must rise up against these tyrants by any means necessary.
The reference is to trump’s tariffs which are a policy that directly impacts American costs. Do you disagree? Additionally Mexico and Canada imposing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports will reduce U.S. exports, resulting in higher unemployment; that too is a cost to Americans.
No disagreement there—tariffs are just taxes by another name, and the costs always fall on businesses and consumers. Retaliatory tariffs only make things worse, hitting U.S. exports and jobs in the process.
There are many essential goods (like basically all of America's lumber and paper pulp needs) that are nearly exclusively imports from Canada. Really hard to build affordable homes when material costs for the home jump from tariffs.
It'll be kind of a net Zero for Canada. The logging industry will take a massive hit, but construction should get a meaningful bump in savings due to cheap lumber from the overstock. Some of that savings will be passed onto the end product consumer and some will go into taxable higher profit margins
I want to thank Canada for being strong and standing with those of us who do not support this ignorant administration. I miss my visits already. I’ll be back as soon as our insanity ends! I question if I would get back if the border closed although being retained in your country wouldn’t be bad!
Those were the policies that got Hoover the boot, and FDR re elected 3 times, and got is the New Deal, and I'm pretty sure Republicans have been butthurt about it ever since.
in my house we didn’t. we worked hard to get Kamala elected. if the construction industry in FL fails then my family is punished. It’s not a zero sum game. There are real families like mine who will suffer the consequences of actions we didn’t take.
I live in Texas, and any tariffs that happen will affect me also, but they don't care about us. What is it going to take for magats to wake up? Do you honestly believe that the heads of the construction industry love Felon 34 enough to lose it all? If they do, then we are lost anyway.
Neither did the rest of the world, but we're still having him inflicted upon us. You think we're just going to roll over and let that bag of shit impose his whims on the rest of us like the majority of Americans did? We'll Pass.
I wonder who will believe Trudeau? Any new people who didn’t believe it when we said it? Whatever it takes even though - it’s a tad on the late side people! 😮💨🙏
Here’s the truth: When goods from Canada get taxed, U.S. companies pass that cost to you—higher prices on groceries, cars, and essentials. Trade wars don’t punish foreign nations; they punish everyday consumers. Let’s push for smarter, cooperative trade policies.
When he mentioned Operation Yellow Ribbon on 9/11 i started bawling. Im not ashamed to admit it. Canadians and Mexicans have been our North American brothers for like 200 years. Im so mortified they are being treated like this.
I wonder what the MAGA Republicans think about the tariffs. I bet they think well the Tariffs will only effect the countries we impose them on. It will have no effect on me. I bet there are a lot of clueless Republicans who think that
The American voters should have known this was coming. During the election Trump talked about imposing massive tariffs on are major trading partners while the Republicans at the same time were blaming Biden for inflation brought on by the pandemic.
I know that. I just don't understand his logic for Canada. I know what he says about Mexico and China. I have not heard a reason for Canada. I guess there is none?
If Trump doesn't level out his flight path and rescind the tariffs, the logical response will be for spurned allies to seek alternatives. Europe and China will be beneficiaries. US is no longer a reliable treaty partner. Trump has driven a stake through that.
Justin Trudeau says Donald Trump has refused to take or return his calls over these tariffs since he announced them. It seems Trump wants economic war with Canada, period, and no negotiations will get in the way of that. God bless America.
Canadian's need to find ways to communicate across all (available and friendly) US channels.
Right now, Trump voters are in a unbroken spellbound state of willful ignorance.
Contact and enlist the amplifiers of the message, circumvent conventional channels, get help from allies on Bluesky.
I hope Americans get to see it. We were watching a show on an American network that should have interrupted their broadcast to air it, but didn’t (we switched to a Canadian channel to watch)
I’m in Oklahoma. I had to watch it on YouTube. I miss leaders that speak in complete sentences and truthfully. I love that he specifically called out Florida OJ! Lots of us tried to warn Trumpers. Now we are all paying the price. But I hope Canada’s sticks with this so trump feels the loss. ❤️🍁
Great points! However, I don’t think Trump will ever feel “loss,” although loss surrounds him. He only cares about himself and what the little voices in his head tell him to do today. Sad times we are in!
Maybe good idea not escalate beyond reason? Trudeau prepared deescalation:
1. Stayed calm and composed
2. Showed understandig of opponent's viewpoint
3. Respected personal integrity
4. Set boundaries calmly
5. Offered solutions and choices
6. Avoided overreacting
7. Knew when to disengage
you shouldn't respect someone who doesn't respect you. Because they see your respect as weakness and cause to bully you. I know you Canadians are awesome people and hate to see how Americans treat you because of that.
I understand your point not to "respect" bullies. PM Trudeau did not show "weakness", in contrary: Canada will unshakingly respond to Donald Trump's tariffs with 25 % tariffs on $155 billion of U.S. goods. Listen carefully: he also speaks to and about his fellow countrymen and -women. "Stand united"
Maybe Orange Guy is using this tactic to get all these countries to grant an exemption to him so he can leave the US. He barred from a lot countries due to his stellar record and reputation!
As it inevitably will! This will affect nearly everyone across the globe, albeit indirectly. Certain products traverse multiple stages of the value chain, influencing both supply and distribution networks.
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"To Trump, Tariffs Are Not a Means but an End" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/trump-tariffs-goal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t04._TqW.Jq-KWVHiBUfZ (gifted article)
Politicians in both parties have at one time or another been enamored by tariffs and people don't seem to understand that those get passed on to consumers.
I thought Trump was a guy who believes in Great White Men of History, moving the Earth through deals on phones, and nothing else.
E helped get American hostages out of Iran- we helped during your hurricanes fires etc. During 911 we opened our airspace and guided your planes to safety and then opened our homes - recently we helped CA to fight catastrophic fires.
- and now you spit in our face!!
Plus a lot of us "Poors" can McGyver the shit out of anything if we need to. Dinner? A pot of water and a box of pasta and I'll give you this:
#ProCanada
#ProMexico
Sick Sick!
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Canada and Mexico raising tariffs will cost us. 🙄
This is why people not afraid to use their brain ignore liberals.
https://youtube.com/shorts/MckCZ9iLAyI?si=Gdx2ofiLzixyZTdw
I’m a big fan of All Dressed chips too if that helps in your decision making Canada. Sorry for everything & he’s not America 🙏
I mean I dearly wish they would but cult members are in a master-slave relationship.
Trump is trying to wreck the USA. He doesn't care who gets hurt. He doesn't care that people have already died. He is trying to destroy everything so a fascist gang of billionaires can rule over the ashes, forever.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Smoot-Hawley-Tariff-Act
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We need a system like Australia, where you can be fined for not voting. Their last election, low turnout was just under 90%.
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Be specific.
Occupy peacefully. Organize. DO SOMETHING.
Fight like hell using your most powerful weapon- YOUR VOICE!
ACT NOW.
WE THE PEOPLE do not accept this!
It would also benefit the mental health of people!!
The time for action is now. We don’t need anymore campfire sing-along, and fascists aren’t giving us “time.”
If you can’t then wear blue and continue to boycott and buycott businesses.
Saying that we need more time instead of spreading the word to others who CAN miss work is impeding the movement.
Support any way you can
I sorry, but the BULLY is wrong!
Canadian's DON'T LIKE BEING BULLIED!!!
Because, he's either trying that or he is intentionally crippling our economy for nefarious purposes unbeknownst
Politicians here are in it for their own self preservation. Democrats are literally singing like this is just one big powwow while Republicans are systematically destroying everything they can.
That kind of tyranny? I didn’t see you going for the head of the snake.
Interesting choice to frame it that way. Is there a specific policy that directly impacts American costs?
Even in this moment.
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I love you all 💗💗
Trump admin is cutting everything down benefiting Americans.
And he's giving massive tax cuts to the wealthiest.
So MORE than every cent of price increase is going straight to the billionaire's pockets.
He's doing that on 2 fronts.
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisdornan.bsky.social/post/3lh67h2tkf22h (via @mwehowski.bsky.social)
https://bsky.app/profile/impudentstrumpet.bsky.social/post/3lh6el36tuc2b
To the people of Canada, Mexico, and China who will also suffer because of this, I am sincerely sorry!
Money talks. If you live in a blue state, boycott products from red states.
If you live in a red state, let your elected representatives know how you feel. ✌️
He’s trying to annex us through economic means. His whole blather about fentanyl and illegal aliens is a smokescreen.
Fight, fight hard.
He’s in the midst of purging that internal resistance now, further enabling his fantasies about Manifest Destiny and a new Gilded Age.
Right now, Trump voters are in a unbroken spellbound state of willful ignorance.
Contact and enlist the amplifiers of the message, circumvent conventional channels, get help from allies on Bluesky.
Remember the threats against Russian collapse?
That never happened either.
🤣😂
Drill, baby, drill.
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1. Stayed calm and composed
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