Some folks who disagree with Trump’s speech
Many folks like Trump’s foreign takeover goals, but there are a few significant ones out there who don’t. Mainly, the ones who LIVE in those ripe-for-takeover places.
Canada…a great place to start. Lovely country, more lakes than you can believe, clean, sorta safe cities, kinda talk funny but from Texas, all a’ y’all do. Our favorite northern buffer zone, reliable allies – what’s not to like? Now, the Canadian tariffs are wha RREALLY don’t make sense. Supposedly we are ‘punishing’ them for not discouraging the southbound fentanyl trade. One small detail: in all of last year, we seized less than 50 pounds along that whole border.
Federal statistics show US border authorities seized 21,889 pounds of fentanyl in the 2024 fiscal year. Of that amount, 43 pounds were seized at the Canadian border — about 0.2% — compared with 21,148 pounds at the Mexican border, about 96.6%. CNN
Prime Minister Trudeau (hey, I don’t like him either) says it is a calculated economic attack to collapse Canada’s economy. BBC My perception of Canadians is that they lean leftist, and even have a whopping big province that owes allegiance to France and speaks French. Good luck getting them to recognize American English as the one true tongue. Trump must really like the idea of 35,000,000 more Democrats?
But Trump pushed even further in a post on Truth Social, saying: “Please explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he puts on a Retaliatory Tariff on the U.S., our Reciprocal Tariff will immediately increase by a like amount!”
Well, we are already at 25%…do I hear 50% 75%?
And then there is Greenland. Officially a protectorate of Denmark. Where have we heard of them? Oh, yes, they belong to NATO with us. Trump wants to make them ours. Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede says:
“Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland in the Greenlandic language) is ours,” Egede wrote on social media. “We don’t want to be Americans, nor Danes; We are Kalaallit. The Americans and their leader must understand that. We are not for sale and cannot simply be taken. Our future will be decided by us in Greenland.”
Denmark’s Defense Minister Trouls Lund Poulsen also responded to Mr. Trump’s claims about taking over Greenland, telling the Danish public broadcaster on Wednesday: “That won’t happen.” CBS News
Sounds like a GREAT fit – who the heck can even spell the name of their language without looking?
With only 60,000 residents, Greenland would probably be no worse than taking over any other small country….say, like Ukraine. OK, that was a cheap shot. But the fact remains – if they don’t want to be part of the US, then there is no other way to rope them in if they don’t want to be bought, right? Are we now so similar to Russia that we invade our way to our goals?
Category: 2024 Election, Canada, Trump!
There was a news story I watched a while ago shortly after Trump mentioned taking over Greenland. The reporter was talking to random folks in a Greenland “city” and most thought the idea was pretty good. They didn’t care about Denmark and felt the Danes felt the same about them.
Yeah, on that one, I’d be far more interested in what the people want, vs a politician..
As for Canada, if this is just a calculated plan to better our position, I’m good with it, but the last thing we need is a huge influx of apologetic leftists, and displaced cheese eatin surrender monkeys..
Most people couldn’t find Greenland on a map if you put a
big green capital G on it.
I can see the headline already.. ” TRUMP KILLS DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN WITH JOINT ADDRESS”…
Apparently the night was too much for the dude that replaced “all hat-no cattle” Lee, and he passed away right after the speech. RIP Mr. Turner. ( can we do Pelosi next?)
You can just bet that some on the left will blame Trump.
DEA says one kilogram has the potential to kill 500,000 people. 43 lbs equals 19.45 kilograms. That’s 9,725,000 people. So yeah, 43 lbs is no big thing.
https://www.dea.gov/resources/facts-about-fentanyl
That’s enough to end the war in Ukraine.
Welp, we certainly don’t need a bunch more demonrat leaning folks, tho I’d venture to say that once one got away from the “metro” areas of Canada one would find that those folks have a lot more in common with “limited” grubermint types like many of us. Not sure how much “Canadian” products I buy and whether or not a tariff would help or hurt me. It is nice to know that we don’t have to defend a several thousands of mile border. Same with Greenland. At the end of the day, the ultimate consumer is the one that pays for a tariff so… How about we just look at a mutual defense type situation, you know…some kind of “Doctrine”? James Monroe…grins.
I’m just curious, but what kind of tariffs did Canada have in place against the USA prior to Trump taking office?
^^^THIS^^^
Canada is our neighbor, friend, and partner, sure. Canadians behave badly then gaslight us when we call them on it and demand equal, reciprocal trade and tariffs.
If your “partner” objects to your reaction without taking accountability for the behavior on their part that instigated your reaction …
I do not recall any loaded milk tankers headed north. I believe they have a very high tariff on milk and milk products to protect their own farmers and I get that. All so lots of logs go north on Canadian trucks. Mostly hardwood I believe. Trains carry lots of softwood lumber south out of Canada. That I suppose is an exchange. There is or was a rule that American trucks could only cross the border loaded in one direction. If you went north loaded you must return empty. I only crossed the border a few times and that was the deal. If you went north empty you could return loaded.
Invading foreign countries, used to be a Democrat thing. Since Regan however, every Republican President has done on the flimsiest of excuses. Let’s knock it off and try better foreign policy instead.
With all this canadian stuff going on, Wilf Carter
AKA Montana slim is turning over in his grave right now.
I’ll get my Montana Slim dvd with “My French Candian Girl”
1958 on the Decca label and listen to it. AY.
Myself and hundreds of other Veterans were just unjustly and perhaps illegally RIFd this week from my Agency.
Nothing but excellent performance reviews, always went above and beyond, four years shy of my 20, some smug Harvard asshole that never served a day of Military or public service in his life just pulled the damn rug out from us under the pretense of “reorganization” to try to get a loophole out of what would otherwise be outright illegal.
I didn’t watch the speech. I couldn’t after reading the WH Advisor rub salt in the wound by stating I “didn’t deserve a job”:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna194721
I have never felt more politically homeless in my life than I have right now. The work me and my coworkers did were important services to the American people, but they (DOGE advisors) did not care. They had “numbers to hit” and they’ll deal with the consequences of these actions later or “we’ll figure a way to make it work later.”
This is not how you treat your Veterans and Public Servants that gave up most of their life to serve the American people.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-federal-workers-veterans-fired-1032360fdc6b2fb33d88edaf8f54d5ca