Trudeau’s message to American people: 'Your government has chosen to do this to you'
After announcing retaliatory tariffs against the U.S., Prime Minister Trudeau delivered a message to the American people.
If Trump backs down on the tariffs, Canada should only back down halfway. Make it clear there are permanent consequences every time he fucks with the world economy on a whim.
We get it. By all means, Trudeau, bring the pain. Show America there are consequences. If you don’t, this will happen again. And again. And again.
We get it. Bring on the pain. Seriously. Fuck Trump.
The Americans chose, or allowed their opponents to choose him. The voters own all of the next 4 years.
But yes, when was the last time inaction in protest worked?
What happens in 4 years? I’d be surprised if there was another election for a while.
Discounting your allies here in the states will only help Trump. Good job, Trump and Vance approved of this message
I'm serious. They love you for this. They love that you said this. Dismissing the dissenters here in the States is a great fascist tactic.
Thanks. Kudos to you!!
As someone in the US living in a very progressive district, the general vibe of Democratic voters is what we should have gotten 8 years ago and even now I still get people saying we need to be more moderate and reach across the aisle.
There is nothing for us across the aisle. Without a fundamental rework of the minority party we just end up back here 10-15 years later because fundamental issues aren't solved and miserable people are easier to sell racist exploitative policies too. If you are comfortable and secure you're more likely to support helping others without worrying about it putting you on the streets.
I held my nose and voted blue no matter who, but there needs to be some consequences to supporting genocide. If Democratic leaders are going to hide behind bureaucracy then we need to go around it or we're on the hook for whatever human rights abuses are done in our name.
Here’s how it works:
You live in a country that has declared war on a much smaller neighbour. (Sure, for now it’s just economic, but cf. Warren Buffet.)
The victims of the aggression from your region are under no obligation to investigate your personal innocence in the matter.
If you are an ally, the responsibility to demonstrate that is entirely yours. Also, the bar is naturally high, as your fascist government has repeatedly threatened our sovereignty and territory.
So suck it up and read up on Denmark or France in 1940.
No, you need to take to the streets and stop this madness RIGHT NOW
You are watching your house on fire and saying "well we done fucked up, maybe we'll sleep it off and come next week with some water"
You will not have a country to save in 2 yers and hoping on the midterms is like curing cancer with thoughts and prayers
You are not our ally anymore if you tolerate this as your government
If we’re truly a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” then we did it to ourselves.
If we’re not that then we should “dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another”
That bit makes more sense when you factor in Scotus making corporations people.
Komrad! Is that you?
Thank you for suggesting the dismantling of the US. This us a great suggestion!!1!
Good thing Trump has 100% support in the US, and he didn't fall short of 50% of the vote!
Baiting people here doesn’t do anything. Go fix it FFS.
We know.
Yes, be more direct and be human. Explaining thing like “ETMI5” will get your point/message across and be understood. Like others have said, if we, the US, back down, Canada should only roll back half way after a certain period of time. We have to learn our lesson. The president is being an uneducated child and he represents us, we should be treated like a child. We all learned a lesson before and we lived and learn. Time to do so again. Turn up the heat!
Pretty much, yeah. Republicans are malignant tumors.
It’s not about republicans, democrats, left or right anymore. It’s all Americans. As a Canadian I don’t see the difference anymore, your entire country is now an enemy
I can get that from a feelings perspective or a reductionist view for simplicity in certain applications, but applying even a little intellect it's obvious that while statistically, yes America is mostly full of undereducated hateful bigots, it's of course plenty easy to find large pockets of perfectly reasonable people. Be careful with oversimplifying the situation.
Is there a website that hosts the video and actually works?
It's got too high of a tariff to be served to you.
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it's democracy, it's written in the name. i remember a college professor constantly on about the need for a constitutional convention, wrote a book or some shit.
I was like, you know the crazies will consume any such convention, right?
challenging him kinda fucked it up but i was not wrong.
Not really "our government". Trump has chosen to do this.
It is your government. This is your head of state and the head of the US government weilding power that once belonged to Congress but ceeded to the executive branch about a hundred years ago. This man represents you.
I understand it is uncomfortable. That you wish it wasn't so I get it... But Do not diminish this fact because these are the stakes. He is your, I repeat Your, Government. Do not wash your hands of him acting as he does because in your silence and denial he still acts on your behalf and you need so much more than silence and denial.
Stop trying to be so edgy, asshole. I didn't ask for this, and basically nobody else on Lemmy did either simply based on user demographics. Even younger-middle-aged people have only been eligible to vote in a handful of presidential elections, and we're fighting decades of gerrymandering, bribery, greed, and billions of dollars in corporate money propaganda campaigns. Basically all there is for me to do is vote at the polls and put my money where my mouth is, which I'm already doing. I'm not going to go out and riot and be sent to jail so I can lose everything because Walmart thought Trump would yield another half a percent to their stock prices.
When something comes up that I can do, I'll join in, but I'm not going to have randos berate me for BS I never asked for.
Nope you guys wanted this by either not voting or by voting trump.
Imo its more nuanced than that.
If there was only the popular vote, which makes more sense than electorate fuckery, we would have avoided round 1 in 2016.
The system of political choice is really broken in the US, that was just one example. None of us chose the political system we use, we are presented with limited and similar options for representation every two years in a first past the post vote.
I agree that we failed to prevent this, but the system is kind of rigged
