penningtron wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 3:34 pm "Among speech watchers" so like.. MAGA and people paid to cover it, otherwise who the hell would sit through that. (including most of the Dems lame 'protest' methods)

zorg wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 3:43 pm

penningtron wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 3:34 pm "Among speech watchers" so like.. MAGA and people paid to cover it, otherwise who the hell would sit through that. (including most of the Dems lame 'protest' methods)

Hell, 35% didn't even vote. But supposedly....

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 4:14 pm if i wanted to register my displeasure with trump, i'd have no problem saying i watched the speech so i could answer a survey.
i imagine many people are like that.

zorg wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 3:14 pm

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 1:49 pm This has soured Canadian-US relations for probably a decade - it's going to be a long hard political battle to get back to where things were.

Shit, I hope you and our European friends don't stop there.
This is where we're at. It was always like this. We never cared about you, you were always a disposable asset. And don't lie to yourselves. When you joined us with smiling faces for our world tour of atrocities just so you could sell us your shit and hide behind our apron strings when the baddies were out to get you, it was knowingly. Once the stupid posturing dies down, you'll see everybody bend the knee. You want our weapons. You want our resources. You want to sell us diabetes medication.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 6:57 pm

zorg wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 3:14 pm

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 1:49 pm This has soured Canadian-US relations for probably a decade - it's going to be a long hard political battle to get back to where things were.

Shit, I hope you and our European friends don't stop there.
This is where we're at. It was always like this. We never cared about you, you were always a disposable asset. And don't lie to yourselves. When you joined us with smiling faces for our world tour of atrocities just so you could sell us your shit and hide behind our apron strings when the baddies were out to get you, it was knowingly. Once the stupid posturing dies down, you'll see everybody bend the knee. You want our weapons. You want our resources. You want to sell us diabetes medication.

That's ignoring that republican voters only care about what's happening the day it's happening (see: global warming). The farmers are already crying about the Tarriffs, going to see a really big shift in those numbers.

There are many other countries to trade with, especially as the American economy melts down. That diabetes medication is going to hurt though.

Canadian do need weapons to protect from annexation Russia style - I'm guessing they'll be a nuclear power within 6 months.

I thought this would all be over clean water, go figure

Krev wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 5:09 pm

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Wed Mar 05, 2025 4:14 pm if i wanted to register my displeasure with trump, i'd have no problem saying i watched the speech so i could answer a survey.
i imagine many people are like that.

So did you say you watched it so you could register your pleasure with Trump, hcain@onlyfans.com?

cakes wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:16 pm

losthighway wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:00 pm

cakes wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 10:41 am I am really digging Canada's response to all this. Targeting red states, 100% tariffs on Teslas. I have to look into it, but our governor was trying to make a deal with Canada to not fuck Illinois over.

After Trump made so much noise but then backed off in the last trade skirmish, a month ago, I started thinking maybe he actually isn't this stupid. Like he just talks about tariffs to see if he can get other things. Sort of like in a press conference last week where he said other countries pay the tariffs we put on their goods. Is he really actually that stupid, or is he just that big of a liar?

But he's doing it. Shooting himself, and the economy right in the foot with no clear goal stated. It's remarkable really.

At first, I thought maybe it was just bluster, because that's how he does "negotiations". But since he just went with it, I think he literally wants to crash the economy so the oligarchs can scoop up more wealth and transform our economy to forced slavery with monopolies and low-wage jobs. If this sounds conspiratorial, consider what he said recently, where the best years of the US were the gilded age.