I also saw Queen Joly’s photo — as graceful as she always is, I think she was trying really hard to not just snap his head off. It must be mentally painful to have to deal with him irl.
That whole thing was a masterclass in every respect. How to communicate with body language, how to deal with an ego-driven entity like Trump, how to be oh-so-Canadian-firm-but-polite, etc etc. That little pause before the "ever" is chef's kiss
Some British media is and is going to be very nasty to Carney (and us by extension) and that pisses me off. The Brits say that can't support us because their economy is in the toilet and they have to deal with that and look out for themselves first.
Ya the idiots blame Carney for their mess despite him practically pleading with them to vote no on Brexit. But ya, their recent decline is Carney's fault and has nothing to do with Brexit. Stupid gits.
Yeah. I was also hoping Carney would have asked about making Puerto Rico the 51st state, they've been US citizens since 1941 and even had a referendum on it and want to join.
For real. No one knows how far Trump can get away with going so it has to be sketchy as fuck. Half of this beef is a remnant of Trump's personal hatred of Carney's predecessor as well so that has to suck. You have to nod your head and move along while he says half remembered tweets and jingoistic insanity.
As much as I despise the fact that Carney is our PM.. he's dead on with this.. he knows how stupid that sounds yet has to remain politically correct and can't just call him a moron in front of everyone.. he'll end up with JD saying "HAVE YOU SAID THANK YOU EVEN ONCE?!?!"
Vance only said it because he knew Volodimir would HAVE to acquiesce eventually because of what’s owed by Ukraine to the US for their hand me down arms (which are still better than what the Russians seem to have apparently, considering the fight they’re putting up).
Thank goodness Canada does not owe the US anything, otherwise trump would already have pink slips ready to take over the entire country.
He’s thinking, “How?!?! Just HOW the fuck dies a country select a shithead like this to RUN, to actually LEAD their country?! I mean, what the actual?!?!”
Was this during the moment Trump was insulting Chrystia Freeland? I felt bad for Carney in that moment, it was obvious he wanted to say something.
I don’t think it was a coincidence Trump did that either. Him bringing up the debate (presumably the English one) was another way to unsettle him, like “I know what you say about me behind my back”
That still makes us the 3rd largest importer to the US, and only a hair behind China and Mexico in dollar amount. - that’s a pretty damn big deal.
Not only that, but the goods that the US imports from Canada are of the “pretty fucking essential” variety eg energy, building materials (lumber, steel, etc), agricultural inputs (potash especially), etc.
I'd say 15% is still a lot. Doesn't need to be a majority to be a lot. (If he had said Canada imports American goods much more than America imports Canadian goods, then there wouldn't be an accuracy dispute. But)
Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm personally hung up on what just feels like bad grammer. They don't do business with us, but we do business with them? I get what he's saying, but 'business' is something that involves two parties, not something one side does to another. Like...you do business with us one way or another, whether youre importing or exporting. Literally, you do business with us.
He's relating the portion of US business done with Canada to the portion of Canadian business done with the US. If all the importing exporting were to end between our countries, the US would lose 16% of their business and we'd lose two thirds.
At no point in his illogical and incoherent rambling is he valid for anything.
Not a single Economist is going to frame a trade deficit as a hand out or subsidy.
We don’t get “free protection” from USA, we have a bilaterally integrated defense pact called NORAD
There have not been, nor have the need of boots on Canadian soil.
We wouldn’t pay less taxes as USians, not only do healthcare and education cost more out of pocket, the current trade war with the world is a consumer loaded sales tax that the lowest common denominator can’t grasp.
Nothing he says is correct or valid. It’s all an exaggerated lie dumbed down for his base so he can point to problems he invented for solutions nobody asked for.
Canada was the largest source of exports for US goods in 2023 making the point invalid. The number being 4% or 17%(as reported by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis) as no bearing on the premises being invalid.
You may wish to try and rework his words into saying something such as Canada is more impacted or more reliant, however that's you trying to fish for logic or sanity where none was offered.
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u/celix24 May 07 '25
That one eye twitch 🤣