*PM says Trump is trying to make it easier to annex Canada — but it won’t work *
An unbowed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Canada will hit back hard at the U.S. after President Donald Trump launched a North American trade war by slapping devastating 25 per cent tariffs on virtually all Canadian goods.
Speaking to reporters at a news conference on Parliament Hill, Trudeau said Trump is trying to prompt “a total collapse of the Canadian economy” because he thinks that will “make it easier to annex us.”
But Trudeau said that will never happen because “when it comes to defending our great nation, there is no price we all aren’t willing to pay.”
Trudeau said Canada will not back down from a fight in the face of “completely bogus and completely unjustified” trade action that has the potential to ruin bilateral relations and prompt job losses, economic devastation and higher inflation on both sides of the border.
It’s designed to isolate the US from its allies, along with everything else Trump is doing
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Listen. I agree, but don’t use the r slur. It makes you sound out-of-touch and makes you look like an asshole.
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Trudeau said he had a message for the president: “Donald, you are a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do.”
When you have to talk to a fucking toddler
The way he switched to toddler-talk when adressing Trump was masterful.
I mean, it is also designed to collapse the US economy too.
But yeah. Trudeau’s speech is 100% essential listening. It is so rare that a politician just tells it like it is and he completely did.
Trudeau’s speech is 100% essential listening.
A link to that would be appreciated.
You’re in the comments of this link asking for a link
That’s just nonsense, the “link” in question was the speech by Trudeau.
“This” link is an article about it. Obviously the 2 are not the same thing.I already answered I skimmed the article, and didn’t see a link to the full speech. With these things links to short cutouts are not uncommon. And instead of EVERYBODY wasting time looking for it, I politely asked for the link.
I personally try to ALWAYS provide a link if I have it, for convenience in similar situations.
Google it, and get me a beer while you’re at it.
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=trudeau+march+4+2025+speech
Or just click the article this topic is for which has an embed?
Cool, more assholes from reddit
Idk why you are getting downvoted, the speech is right in the article. People are lazy and expect shit to be handed to them even when the answer is one click away (the article).
Part of it is that I made the mistake of implying anyone should EVER read an article rather than just spamming memes and non sequitors based off keywords in the topic title. Why discuss current events when you can instead spam comments that you know will get you some precious gamefaqs karma?
But mostly it is highlighting how completely internet illiterate people are at this point. EVERYONE hates AI and The Everything Apps and what reddit/twitter/instagram (but never tiktok. tiktok is love. tiktok is life) shows them and so forth. But the moment you suggest that someone can control what they see or seek out information on their own? The (almost) decades of training and conditioning kicks in and people are just unreasonable for implying anything other than what the internet and the totally humans we are talking to shows us.
Which is especially frustrating when we are already seeing ai/deepfake driven discourse is accomplishing. It really is fucking terrifying that the response was that I am “full of shit” for implying an article about a topic might have an embed of the speech in question but also that there would be blind trust if I just linked to a random youtube.
I probably should have been nicer and not done the LMGTFY. But it was worth it just to watch someone’s mind be blown because they had apparently never seen an LMGTFY shitpost before. And also… my general stance is that people who are willfully and aggressively ignorant deserve no respect. More flies with honey but… the flies are already morbidly obese diabetics so maybe a bit less honey is called for.
rather than just spamming memes and non sequitors based off keywords in the topic title
Yeah I thought that was just reddit, but we do it over here too. Stupid thing is, the “karma” or whatever it’s called on Lemmy isn’t even displayed, so it doesn’t do shit anyway.
I probably should have been nicer and not done the LMGTFY
I mean, maybe? I think if all the downvoters understood that the content in question was right there in the article, they would have been on your side. Instead, they just pile on and call you a meanie. Meh.
I looked but couldn’t find it.
Your stupid link also doesn’t work, shows an animation of a search without any result???
Thanks for being arrogant about it though.Edit:
Oh the stupid page doesn’t work in dark mode, and you have to wait for the idiotic animation: 🤡
I was politely asking for the link, no need for this bullshit!You were the one who claimed it’s a must see, and then not provide the link to see it!!!
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The point of LMGTFY is to obnoxiously remind someone that they are on an internet box and can easily find things themselves. The animation is actively meant to shame people into understanding just how much of their time and everyone else’s they waste when they ask for a link to something trivial.
Also, again: The video is embedded in the article this thread is about.
Look, I get it: The pleasure box in our hands is fun and The Algorithm tells us everything we might ever need. But you REALLY should learn basic internet literacy if you want to function in this post-truth world.
The point of LMGTFY is to obnoxiously remind someone
Nah, I’m pretty sure the point of LMGTFY is to identify yourself as an obnoxious asshole.
If you couldn’t be bothered providing a link then you could’ve just not responded.
It would’ve been easy enough to just link whatever you were looking at.
Instead you went out of your way to make the person asking feel silly.
The point of LMGTFY is to obnoxiously remind someone that they are on an internet box and can easily find things themselves.
You wrote specifically yourself that this was a MUST SEE!
then you want everybody who takes you up on it to search for it, Instead of you providing a link.
The one that was lazy here was you, and not me for asking politely, for that exact reason.…
We are in a thread about the speech. The article this links to has the entirety of the speech embedded in it.
Shit like this is still useful: please understand. Not ALL of America is racist (well… a lot of us are). Most are just REALLY FUCKING STUPID and completely broken by algorithm driven content. And other countries? You aren’t far behind. Fix your shit before you are as screwed as we are.
So please tell me where in that article is the link to a video of the full speech?
Because I skimmed it again, and I still can’t find it!!!It has 7 big photos, and is 5 pages on my monitor. It may be there, or you may be full of shit IDK, and honestly, I don’t even care, because you are obviously too dense to get the point.
USA has become the enemy of democracy, NATO and traditional allies. But I’m sure EU and UK will be happy to strengthen relations, trade and even defense cooperation.
It may not be as convenient as having a big neighboring friend, but hopefully dampen the cost to Canada, while USA will have no such opportunities that I can see.
As long as this continues, it means the USA is an enemy, not just Trump and his administration, but USA as a whole.I recommend that Canada block all oil exports to USA, this will increase gas prices at the pump, and Americans hate that.
Its $4.50/gal at the pump right now. Let’s see that sucker go to $10.00 and let’s see Mr T defend removing electric vehicle chargers from anywhere.
Oh no!!! $10 would make the whole country explode. We just want a new administration, not chaos. 😋
PS: American gas prices makes my head hurt, how many liters are in a gallon?
Ah well here we go:1 gallon is 3.79 liter.
1 USD is 0.941 EurSo 4.5 x 0.941 / 3.79 = €1.12 per liter.
That’s almost half of here, so bringing it to $10 would only make it slightly more expensive than most European countries.
I think Canada can do that. 🍻$60 bucks per fill up for a hybrid would suck. That’s hobby money.
Last time I filled her up, shew was almost empty, and it was about 800DKK = $114 USD.
This is probably by American standards a fuel efficient car, with a 60 liter tank or almost 16 gallon.
Can we leave Mr. T out of this, the man who goes by that name still has my respect :)
Mr. T famously advocated for people to not drop out of school with the phrase, “I pity the fool who don’t stay in school.” I always imagined him taking this to absurd degrees. I imagine him harassing and shaming people to endlessly stay in school until they’re enrolled in doctoral programs they have no interest in.
“Leave me alone Mr. T, I don’t want to do a post-doc!”
“I PITY THE FOOL WHO DON’T STAY IN SCHOOL!”
He also stopped wearing most of his gold after being down in New Orleans helping clean up from Katrina. Said he felt it was wrong to be displaying such wealth when he was staring at people who had just lost literally everything.
Murica is that shitty dog owner at the dog park who is sitting on the bench looking at their phone while their dog is running around bitting and trying to fuck the other dogs.
GET CONTROL OF YOUR FUCKING DOG!
We’re an angry drunk running down the street with a shotgun trying to pick fights. Dangerous and repulsive, but all reasonable people can do is try to get out of the way until police arrive. Except there is no police in this geopolitical metaphor.
The angry drunk is actually the police man
Maybe everybody should go in the washroom together like that little town that had a bully problem.
Good. Use the small words that Donnie can understand. Make the pissbaby throw another tantrum.
Sorry for messing around with this post. Lemmy.world has a weird bug(?) where posts with CBC articles won’t federate. Had to trick it.
Well, joke’s on you, Mr. Prime Minister. It’s prolly gonna destroy ours first! So nyah!
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I’m glad the gloves are being thrown and they call it for what it is. That delicate diplomatic dance that lead up to this was clearly not working.
I will now treat every American as an enemy. It started as me giving the middle finger to some Washington asshole on the road yesterday. Small steps. Don’t feel like going to jail yet, for the actions I really want to do.
Targeting or even murdering random Americans will only accelerate the breakdown of civility and accomplish nothing. Recognize your words as an emotional outburst and channel your anger into something more constructive.
Don’t be an emotional reactionary like this guy or Trump are. There are a lot of good Americans out there who are still our friends and allies. Target your feelings to the ones actually harming us. Spraying hatred everywhere doesn’t do anyone any good.
There are a lot of good Americans out there who are still our friends and allies.
Yeah, approx 30% of them.
Ill believe that once those good Americans start a civil war. Nothing short of that will work. One side is trying civil methods and it’s only making the other side stronger. They are past the point of no return.
I’m a Washingtonian and I’ve voted, protested, and in every way possible fought against politicians like this for decades.
This isn’t the classic United States “fucking over other countries for US gain”. Trump and the MAGA cronies are also fucking over the US for personal gain. They’ve fooled the most gullible, ignorant fraction of the population into supporting them despite it being against their best interests, a fraction that continues to grow due to decades of intense propaganda, sabotaged public education, and political cultism.
We’re all victims here. Some more than others but, with the exception of those supporting the fascist MAGA movement with full knowledge of what they truly stand for, everyone in the world is a victim.
So please do something about your executive. Because we have to respond to the actions they’re taking in your name. Don’t like it? Restrain them. There’s millions more of you than there are of them.
Sure, I’ll singlehandedly control the US population as soon as someone tells me how to do it.
I thought there was already an amendment for this
Well the guy is still standing. So you haven’t done everything. French people go and burn down the streets. You guy have written a letter and said oh that’s all we can do.
Another brave keyboard warrior advocating a disabled guy assassinate one of the most heavily guarded politicians in the world. I’m assuming you’re able bodied, what’s your excuse for not doing it?
How were they supposed to know you’re disabled?
They couldn’t without asking questions. That’s on me, I lost my cool a bit. I’m getting tired of people like them who are happy to ask others to throw their lives away, people they neither know nor care anything about, but won’t do the same themselves.
They’re just looking for people to blame for issues they feel they can’t control, and my mistake is interacting with them at all.
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I agree with the other replies to your comment.
That said, if you happen to encounter an American politician other than Bernie, AOC, or a few others, please do make them as uncomfortable as you can.
Basically, you’re right, but it would be better to be a little more focused.
Oh I’m ready to go all the way. Trumps serious and his threats need to be taken serious. I won’t fire the first shot but I’ll make sure I’m ready to fire the last one.
The Washingtonians that you want to attack don’t live anywhere near your border and rarely travel outside of the trailer parks of Centralia, so I think your anger is misdirected.
