I will, goddammit. Every. Fucking time. And right now my dream team is Freeland and May. The WOMEN got the fire. Burn that blithering, bloviating, bullshiting blowhole to bits 💥BOOM💥
I will say as a Canadian; I love my country as it is, strong and true : I love our brothers and sisters in America. What I don’t love? Disrespectful rhetoric.
Great column. I’m just tired of Trudeau and glad he’s gone. Maybe Chrystia will have some balls. Trump is just a troll. But Canada should strengthen their alliances with the EU and GB.
It’s like everyone has forgotten this is a country to be proud of and support and not a bunch of special interest groups.
I will. Right down to my last breath, spitting blood and whatever teeth are left in my skull.
The Demented Orange Toilet Tornado will not last, but his vomitus will. Get strapped Canucks - a bully only respects a kick to the balls. BTW - for all my fellow Albertans, especially those of the Vichy/"I surrender" sentiment around selling a barrel of oil, or a mucho cubic ft of natural gas - your economic interests doesn't mean you bend over and/or kneel down to sell your country out - shake the living shit out of your heads!
Lastly, the only Canadian dignitary to attend the Presidential Inauguration is the Head of Custodial Services from the Canadian Embassy in Washington.
I just saw Rob Ford get harangued by Jesse Watters of Fox News Channel. The clip was pretty bad. A Newfoundlander with a distinctive accent that won’t take crap from the crazies might be to break through here stateside.
The arguments being deployed by Trump surrogates sound like those sexual abusers make when deflecting blame. Treating the bozos my countrymen elected as the predators they are may be best. Don’t be prey. Go on offense. Smack this down hard before the old man decides to go through with it.
It's time for Canadians to respond to Trump's nonsense in the correct way: have a public discussion about what states should join Canada as provinces when the USA breaks up in a few years.
What's sad about the situation here in the states is that nearly every bad thing Trump will do could be easily stopped if we Americans had a national opposition party not fully animated by the spirit of Vichy. All the Democrats care about is sustaining their dismal brand by gaslighting voters into donating until the sun explodes.
So it's gonna be on the rest of the democratic world to wall off the USA and replace its functions. About half of the states will rejoin the world in a few years.
West Coast = only coast, so far as I'm concerned. :)
It's not a helpful social media platform if you can get blowback from the bully who posts, and their millions of cohorts. It's more like a cheap weapon.
To me these truth social posts are a cowardly, dirty weapon, only meant to demoralize the little guy.
It's the reason I left Twitter. Musk is an incredible threat to democracy and has turned that platform into another weaponized bullhorn for fascists (real ones). We are in grave danger across the democratic West.
Unfortunately, I’m an anonymous nobody with a small following (and will remain so). It’ll take all of us to demand our politicians grow up, stop the games, and get serious.
You're telling it exactly like it is. Trump will proceed step by step. Until he meets resolute resistance from Ottawa, the media, and the Canadian public, he will push deeper to see how far he can go.
Canada needs a strong government that is willing and able to demand the respect due a sovereign nation. But where will it come from?
At this point, the establishment is mostly in a daze. That must change. And time is short.
Canadians gave up on Canada after the fixed NAFTA "Free Trade' referendum. The economies are completely intertwined in a north - south direction. Can't get a bottle of BC wine in Ontario. Canadians have only themselves to blame when they pay their insurance companies for a doctor's note.
Yes. Like the oft-repeated line at NAFTA time, "For sure we should try free trade with the US, and if it works, we can try it between the provinces..."
Well said OP! We need more Canadian voices to be raised to this external threat to our sovereignty! And it is most definitely a clear and present threat! We as a people need to wake up and come together.
In this respect, perhaps Trump actually is doing us a favour?
Being familiar with Canadians. All my relatives were from the Maritimes. Generally, someone from the States is looked upon as a nebulous second class citizen compared to an authentic Canadian. There is a lot of national pride. Nobody in Canada who is Canadian wants anything to do with the States in that intimate way.
As an elder Canadian, I am not quite sure what the panicky calls for immediate action by the Canadian government is all about. Trump is a bully who is not even in power and who is frightening the weak with noisy threats. Our PM said a few days ago that the chance of a merger is that of a snowball in hell. The premiers who are rushing to make concessions to Trump are an embarrassment. Danielle Smith, who wants to continue to profit from oil and opposes a serious national environmental control strategy that might affect oil sales, is heading to Trump's inaugural ceremony to kiss the ring. How deep is her Canadianism when she hastens to kiss Trump's ring. Doug Ford in Ontario wants to deal with Trump as businessman to businessman. What a joke. Surely we have time for our election, the constitution of a new government and a measured national response to Trump's threats? The Premiers do not speak for Canada and when they posture on matters outside their jurisdiction they weaken our national unity. Here in Ontario, I have heard nothing but negative reactions to the thought of merging under Trump's leadership.
I’ll speak for Canada. Donald, you can take your rhetoric and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine. We burned down your house the last time the US had aspirations like this.
I will, goddammit. Every. Fucking time. And right now my dream team is Freeland and May. The WOMEN got the fire. Burn that blithering, bloviating, bullshiting blowhole to bits 💥BOOM💥
If only.
I've loved Elizabeth May since the debates she was allowed to participate in, where she destroyed Harper :)
Hell ya 👍
Bring on Charlie Angus
He’s been awesome. I don’t always agree with his party, but he’s always been a standup guy.
Same!
I'm stunned and discouraged that American podcasters have been featuring him but not a squeak from Canadian media as far as I can tell. How pathetic!
I will say as a Canadian; I love my country as it is, strong and true : I love our brothers and sisters in America. What I don’t love? Disrespectful rhetoric.
Great column. I’m just tired of Trudeau and glad he’s gone. Maybe Chrystia will have some balls. Trump is just a troll. But Canada should strengthen their alliances with the EU and GB.
It’s like everyone has forgotten this is a country to be proud of and support and not a bunch of special interest groups.
Canada is in desperate need of a ‘love actually’ PM to US President moment where we basically tell the president to go to hell…
Time for some major city unity marches demanding respect for Canada's existance as a SOVEREIGN NATION? 🤔
Well past time to stand up to DT.
Never too late to stand up.
I will. Right down to my last breath, spitting blood and whatever teeth are left in my skull.
The Demented Orange Toilet Tornado will not last, but his vomitus will. Get strapped Canucks - a bully only respects a kick to the balls. BTW - for all my fellow Albertans, especially those of the Vichy/"I surrender" sentiment around selling a barrel of oil, or a mucho cubic ft of natural gas - your economic interests doesn't mean you bend over and/or kneel down to sell your country out - shake the living shit out of your heads!
Lastly, the only Canadian dignitary to attend the Presidential Inauguration is the Head of Custodial Services from the Canadian Embassy in Washington.
I just saw Rob Ford get harangued by Jesse Watters of Fox News Channel. The clip was pretty bad. A Newfoundlander with a distinctive accent that won’t take crap from the crazies might be to break through here stateside.
The arguments being deployed by Trump surrogates sound like those sexual abusers make when deflecting blame. Treating the bozos my countrymen elected as the predators they are may be best. Don’t be prey. Go on offense. Smack this down hard before the old man decides to go through with it.
It's time for Canadians to respond to Trump's nonsense in the correct way: have a public discussion about what states should join Canada as provinces when the USA breaks up in a few years.
What's sad about the situation here in the states is that nearly every bad thing Trump will do could be easily stopped if we Americans had a national opposition party not fully animated by the spirit of Vichy. All the Democrats care about is sustaining their dismal brand by gaslighting voters into donating until the sun explodes.
So it's gonna be on the rest of the democratic world to wall off the USA and replace its functions. About half of the states will rejoin the world in a few years.
West Coast = only coast, so far as I'm concerned. :)
It's not a helpful social media platform if you can get blowback from the bully who posts, and their millions of cohorts. It's more like a cheap weapon.
To me these truth social posts are a cowardly, dirty weapon, only meant to demoralize the little guy.
It's the reason I left Twitter. Musk is an incredible threat to democracy and has turned that platform into another weaponized bullhorn for fascists (real ones). We are in grave danger across the democratic West.
Black Cloud 6, you are standing up and speaking out. We all need to stand up as a people.
Unfortunately, I’m an anonymous nobody with a small following (and will remain so). It’ll take all of us to demand our politicians grow up, stop the games, and get serious.
Don't stop. Keep going. Your readership will surely grow.
"But I am only one person" - said 40 million Canadians.....
You're telling it exactly like it is. Trump will proceed step by step. Until he meets resolute resistance from Ottawa, the media, and the Canadian public, he will push deeper to see how far he can go.
Canada needs a strong government that is willing and able to demand the respect due a sovereign nation. But where will it come from?
At this point, the establishment is mostly in a daze. That must change. And time is short.
Canadians gave up on Canada after the fixed NAFTA "Free Trade' referendum. The economies are completely intertwined in a north - south direction. Can't get a bottle of BC wine in Ontario. Canadians have only themselves to blame when they pay their insurance companies for a doctor's note.
Yes. Like the oft-repeated line at NAFTA time, "For sure we should try free trade with the US, and if it works, we can try it between the provinces..."
Well said OP! We need more Canadian voices to be raised to this external threat to our sovereignty! And it is most definitely a clear and present threat! We as a people need to wake up and come together.
In this respect, perhaps Trump actually is doing us a favour?
Being familiar with Canadians. All my relatives were from the Maritimes. Generally, someone from the States is looked upon as a nebulous second class citizen compared to an authentic Canadian. There is a lot of national pride. Nobody in Canada who is Canadian wants anything to do with the States in that intimate way.
As an elder Canadian, I am not quite sure what the panicky calls for immediate action by the Canadian government is all about. Trump is a bully who is not even in power and who is frightening the weak with noisy threats. Our PM said a few days ago that the chance of a merger is that of a snowball in hell. The premiers who are rushing to make concessions to Trump are an embarrassment. Danielle Smith, who wants to continue to profit from oil and opposes a serious national environmental control strategy that might affect oil sales, is heading to Trump's inaugural ceremony to kiss the ring. How deep is her Canadianism when she hastens to kiss Trump's ring. Doug Ford in Ontario wants to deal with Trump as businessman to businessman. What a joke. Surely we have time for our election, the constitution of a new government and a measured national response to Trump's threats? The Premiers do not speak for Canada and when they posture on matters outside their jurisdiction they weaken our national unity. Here in Ontario, I have heard nothing but negative reactions to the thought of merging under Trump's leadership.
I’ll speak for Canada. Donald, you can take your rhetoric and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine. We burned down your house the last time the US had aspirations like this.