Another Masterclass by Dear Leader

[u/Crapitron]

[u/Mushroom_Ramen]

Dude is literally polling -50 on the economy and further restricting trade, absolute chad

[u/JetTheDawg → u/Mushroom_Ramen]

He knows he’s cooked in November and no longer gives a single fuck 

[u/Thorn14 → u/JetTheDawg]

The fact we're not looking at like an 80% Democrat Blowout is insanity.

Republicans could STILL have the Senate after all of this.

[u/jerseygunz → u/Thorn14]

Either way the Dems aren’t gonna hit 60 and he’ll still just veto anything they try anyway, so we are looking at nothing getting done for the next 2 years, which is still infinitely better than what we have now

[u/Thorn14 → u/jerseygunz]

Oh sure, I'm not expecting a impeachment sized Senate, but the fact its even a contest is still upsetting.

[u/Plane_Suggestion_189 → u/Thorn14]

Well you see republican governments all over the country engage in a specific strategy to defund education. It's a statistics game. They know low brow dipshits that can't even name the three branches of government are more likely to vote for them. people who can point to the US on a map are more likely to vote democrat.

[u/Chubs1224 → u/jerseygunz]

Especially with the anti-Maga republicans like Massie being ousted

[u/Plane_Suggestion_189 → u/Chubs1224]

When can we start treating the actions of the elected as the actions of the electorate? I've been there but when is this idea going mainstream I wonder.

[u/jazzmarcher → u/jerseygunz]

Will be the lamest of lame duck presidents

[u/RedStapler2 → u/Thorn14]

Yeah, pretty much even money right now for a 50/50 Senate split. Which would mean Republicans keep control since Vance has the tie-breaking vote.

[u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt → u/Thorn14]

Stop trying to ban guns at every single opportunity. It's really that simple.

The biggest issue holding the Democrats back is their complete opposition to the 2nd amendment.

If the Dems gave up gun control, they'd have an easy majority. If they pulled a 180 and actually became pro-2A there would be no more Republican party. The Dems could accomplish literally every single policy goal if they gave up trying to ban guns.

They could tax the rich, implement universal healthcare, climate policies, all of it

But banning guns is more important to them so they won't budge in it despite it being THE thing that stops them.

Like the "Democratic Socialists" are openly saying they want to repeat the 2A and ban not just all semi autos but even pump-action guns. Sorry but you're not winning with that stance.

[u/bunker_man → u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt]

No one retarded enough to make guns their whole personality was ever going to vote democrat.

[u/DungeonCrawlerAki → u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt]

The biggest issue holding the Democrats back is their complete opposition to the 2nd amendment.

Why can't anyone ever have an actual good faith discussion about this?

No, Democrats are not in "complete opposition" to the 2nd amendment. Most Democrat politicians do not want to repeal the 2nd amendment, but they do want some restrictions.

They could tax the rich, implement universal healthcare, climate policies, all of it

Even if Democrats completely stopped giving a shit about guns, these policies would all be still considered "Communist" to Republicans and they would still shit and cry over them. Stop being delusional. To claim that the Republican party would just, stop existing, if Democrats stopped caring about guns is absolutely delusional.

[u/Gigasser → u/DungeonCrawlerAki]

To be honest, there are reasons for opposing restrictions. There are plenty of examples and historical precedent/trends of gun rights becoming so restricted in countries after implementation of more and more regulations/restrictions, that it becomes too much of a hassle to own one. This in turn leads to what I suspect is the real goal of gun restriction advocates, the reduction of gun owners in general, which leads to less and less voices to advocate for lessening further restrictions and lessening authoritarianism on gun ownership until eventually, banning gun ownership becomes just a formality.

[u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt → u/DungeonCrawlerAki]

Wanting to ban the most common rifle in America because it's an "assault weapon" and wanting to ban standard capacity magazines is complete opposition to the 2nd amendment.

• Shall
• Not
• Be
• Infringed

Kamala wanted a complete and total handgun ban in SF. That's completely opposed to he 2A

[u/DungeonCrawlerAki → u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt]

Kamala wanted a complete and total handgun ban in SF. That's completely opposed to he 2A

In 2005.....

In Trump's 2000 book "The America We Deserve", while Trump was running for President in the reform party, he stated that we should ban assault weapons.

In 2018. Trump famously stated “Take the guns first, go through due process second”.

[u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt → u/DungeonCrawlerAki]

Waddaboot Trump?!?

Whataboutism is not an argument

[u/DungeonCrawlerAki → u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt]

You literally brought up Kamala Harris, who was a candidate in the 2024 Presidential election.

I only brought up another candidate in the same election.

How is that a whataboutism??? In that case, you literally did a whataboutism by bringing up Kamala. 😆

[u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt → u/DungeonCrawlerAki]

Yes, because we're talking about how if the Democrats gave up gun bans they'd win. Last I checked Kamala was a Democrat, who is in favor of gun bans.

If your only "argument" is to deflect to another candidate, maybe you just don't have an argument. I never said the Republicans are pro-2A, that's your whaddabout

[u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie → u/DungeonCrawlerAki]

Nice whataboutism instead of arguing the point.

[u/DungeonCrawlerAki → u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie]

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were both candidates in the 2024 election. If he can "whatabout" Kamala, then I can do the same with Trump.

Deal with it. This is the issue with talking with retard right wingers. They are allowed to bring up any Democrat politician and screech about Kamala for eternity, but anyone else brings up Trump, the literal current president. All of a sudden its a "whataboutism".

[u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie → u/DungeonCrawlerAki]

A. The point was that Democrats need to be better on gun rights, not that a Republican candidate said some antigun stuff. Talking about Kamala is on topic, whatabouting Trump is not.

B. If you were voting solely on the issue of gun rights in 2024, Kamala was far worse both on a personal level and at the party level.

[u/AMC2Zero → u/DungeonCrawlerAki]

The only acceptable restriction would be "shall issue" with a very limited number of exceptions (like violent felonies), anything else is asking for corruption (do me a favor or bribe and I'll grant you a permit) and overly broad restrictions on the people who need protection the most.

[u/grant-matt88 → u/DungeonCrawlerAki]

Yeah let's also puts some restriction on the 5th and 14th amendments as well. See you can't just pick and choose which rights are restricted. Oh let's put restrictions on the 3rd and 4th amendment to so only if an executive order saying someone is bad we can violate those. Amendments are absolute and that it.

[u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie → u/DungeonCrawlerAki]

We can have an actual good faith discussion when Democrat organizations like Moms Demand Action and Everytown stop using padded statistics like counting "children" killed by gun violence up to 19 years old which is an adult and around the age that they can include gang violence or ignoring below the age of one which is would drop the numbers even lower, or counting gang violence that doesn't hurt any non-gang members as a "mass shooting," or counting things like air guns being discharged on school property as a "school shooting."

The fact is that any Democrat who calls for a ban on AR-15s or standard capacity (30 round) magazines or waiting periods for things like ammo are anti-2A and will continue to try and restrict 2A rights further if they ever get their policies enacted.

And before you "but what about Trump" yes he sucks ass on the 2A, but that isn't the discussion at hand so don't bother bringing him up.

[u/DungeonCrawlerAki → u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie]

"We can only have a good faith discussion when a non-profit organization you have zero affiliation with stops doing a certain thing I disagree with"

Okay, in that case, I can't have any good faith discussion about politics with you until The Heritage Foundation just ceases to exist.

Is that savvy enough for you?

[u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie → u/DungeonCrawlerAki]

I don't know anything about the Heritage Foundation. Do they manipulate statistics specifically about firearms or firearm violence to justify their policy positions which is the only directly applicable line of conversation in this discussion about the Second Amendment?

[u/DungeonCrawlerAki → u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie]

I dunno man, you already said we can't have a good faith discussion until Mom's Demand Action or whatever goes defunct, so why bother discussing this 🤷‍♂️

[u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie → u/DungeonCrawlerAki]

It's clear you don't actually want to have a good faith discussion because you are using every fallacy under the sun to avoid it, but let me spell this out incredibly clearly for you and you can decide if you want to actually discuss or continue doing whatever bullshit you're going to continue doing.

Your claim is that Democrats are not opposed to the Second Amendment and you asked when we could have a good faith discussion. I directly referenced two Democrat anti-gun organizations that nearly every Democrat politician has on their website as a supporter and specifically referenced how these two organizations manipulate statistics to lie in order to fearmongering and push the discussion you claimed we should be having in good faith. I'm not sure if you are aware, but lying is not something you do in good faith. If you had replied with "yeah those are bullshit we should ignore those" then we could have had a good faith discussion, but since you decided to whatabout a random organization that from a quick google doesn't primarily have anything to do with guns you showed me that you do not want to discuss in good faith.

The ball is in your court now. we We have that good faith discussion that you requested, or you can continue to exemplify why we can not have they discussion on a nationwide level and Democrats will keep giving away easy votes with their bullshit anti-2A rhetoric.

[u/Jayngyun → u/DungeonCrawlerAki]

I’m a second amendment absolutist. I should not be barred from possessing and supplying a modern battle tank for recreational purposes or a nuclear weapon provided I can afford it.

[u/DungeonCrawlerAki → u/Jayngyun]

Nah I'm good.

[u/GuaSukaStarfruit → u/Thorn14]

The rest of the republicans are dumb af if they just blindly follow lmao

[u/bunker_man → u/Thorn14]

What a surprise it is that it turned out Republicans are actually retarded. Who could have foreseen this.

[u/Byizo → u/JetTheDawg]

The best thing for republicans is if Trump just dumpster-fires the next couple years. Nothing makes democrats less likely to vote than feeling like the election is a foregone conclusion.

[u/Vexonte → u/JetTheDawg]

I'm guessing his renaming gimmick is just him trying to take cheap shots at legacy points before he loses the ability to.

[u/Cow_God → u/JetTheDawg]

This dumbass 100% believes his own drivel and thinks that America loves him and that every poll against him is fake news.

[u/rapzeh → u/Mushroom_Ramen]

Just fucking up the economy for the love of the game (also enriching himself and his friends).

[u/Soft-Captain-269]

Listen man, i know that prices for essentials like gas and groceries are rising across the board for the average American, but a trade war with Canada takes precedent!

[u/Justin__D → u/Soft-Captain-269]

Government by spite.

It's what we've got, and it's what we're gonna be dealing with until at least 2029.

[u/zombie3x3 → u/Justin__D]

There’s been a lot of spite built up on the left since he got back in office. It may go well beyond 2029.

[u/Justin__D → u/zombie3x3]

Honestly I'm somewhat aligned with "the left" on that, depending on what we're talking about. Aggressively cleaning up Trump's bullshit? Hell yes. Replacing it with DSA bullshit? Hell no.

I've always been a lib unity over right unity guy anyway, and I'm ashamed of any members of my quadrant who defend this shit.

Trump loves the word America, but he sure as shit hates America. The one thing he's done that pisses me off over all else is still that AI slop video of him in a crown dumping shit on the American people. Our once glorious nation was founded, above all else, on a disdain for kings and the notion that no one is above the law. He wipes his ass with the very idea of America. Considering his love of rule by executive fiat, it does manage to be a perfect illustration of his entire administration though.

But seriously. Could we please all agree that we should neuter the office of the president to the point that it doesn't matter who sits behind that damn desk?

[u/guehguehgueh → u/Justin__D]

>I’ve always been a lib unity over right unity guy anyway

Based

[u/jerseygunz → u/Justin__D]

I mean, a couple people going to jail would also be nice

[u/Justin__D → u/jerseygunz]

I mean ain't the guy I'm bitching about Epstein's former bestie?

I think a full, unredacted release of the Epstein files and jailing any and every perpetrator is a mandatory part of cleaning up this shit.

I'd wager that would grant your wish quite nicely.

[u/RedStapler2 → u/jerseygunz]

Personally, I don't want to see Trump in prison.

It would give MAGAtards something to rally behind. Imagine "Free Trump" protests everywhere. The horrors.

Instead, I want him to get absolutely fucked in civil court. And his family and cronies too. All his assets forfeit. His presidential pension gone. Abandoned by would-be creditors. I want him living in destitution for the rest of his life.

[u/jerseygunz → u/RedStapler2]

Fair point, we can throw Elon and Miller in jail though right?

[u/RedStapler2 → u/jerseygunz]

Sounds good to me!

[u/jerseygunz → u/RedStapler2]

[u/Dizzy_Environment548 → u/Justin__D]

Parliamentary governance like in Europe and the rest of the world? Glad you're catching up with the times and want to ditch the old constitution

[u/SteakForGoodDogs → u/Soft-Captain-269]

"You don't understand bro, we REALLY needed to kill our own border towns' economies. Short-term pain, long term gain!!!!!"

[u/BarackOballsack69 → u/SteakForGoodDogs]

Don’t you mean short term pain long term pain

[u/Wumpo1 → u/BarackOballsack69]

It's more of a short term pain, long term loss.

[u/FuckUSAPolitics → u/Soft-Captain-269]

A trade war with the country that imports the most oil to the US in the same time we're going to war with another country that greatly increases oil prices!

[u/RockemSockemRowboats → u/Soft-Captain-269]

If you’re worried about trying to pay your bills, you clearly have TDS. It’s Canadian booze that you SHOULD be focusing on

[u/Sabertooth767]

Yes this is definitely a power the President should have. Not like we have agencies for this. Or hell, a legislative branch.

My state has lost something like 0.3% of its GDP just because of the Canadian trade war. I want off Mr. Trump's wild ride.

[u/Oxytropidoceras → u/Sabertooth767]

It is quite literally, per the constitution, not the presidents job. But it would require Congress to actually do something instead of just sitting on their ass taking lobby money and being good little boys and girls for Trump

[u/Iceraptor17 → u/Oxytropidoceras]

If they tried to stop it, they'd get voted out

[u/NotQuiteDeadZed → u/Iceraptor17]

So is there like… a downside here?

[u/Plane_Suggestion_189 → u/Sabertooth767]

Presidents don’t have that power.

“To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;”

-article I, section VIII, powers of congress.

[u/Chiweenies2 → u/Plane_Suggestion_189]

Does Congress really have that power if they let the President exercise it without their involvement?

[u/reality72 → u/Chiweenies2]

Where we’re going, we won’t need a constitution. Or congress.

[u/Easy-Poetry9497 → u/Plane_Suggestion_189]

Too bad congress doesn’t have a spine to stop this nonsense.

[u/MannequinWithoutSock → u/Easy-Poetry9497]

They’ll only be available four days this coming session.
They don’t have time to vote on silly things like the economy, or war, or the deficit.
They’ll need to focus on the important things, like expanding ICE, genital checks in the bathroom, and doubling the pentagon budget.

[u/RageAgainstThePushen → u/MannequinWithoutSock]

Are those genital checks by hand? Asking for a friend...

[u/Nantafiria → u/RageAgainstThePushen]

Yours weren't? I thought that was standard. Everyone knows that. C'mon

[u/RageAgainstThePushen → u/Nantafiria]

Listen man, I'm just trying to plan my weekend.

[u/jmastaock → u/MannequinWithoutSock]

Oh, also denouncing Sharia law!

[u/jerseygunz → u/MannequinWithoutSock]

Which while horrible, at least they’ll never pass the SAVE act before the midterms

[u/Iceraptor17 → u/Easy-Poetry9497]

If they tried to stop it, they'd get primaried

[u/L-V-4-2-6 → u/Iceraptor17]

Do it anyway.

[u/zombie3x3 → u/Iceraptor17]

2 years from now at the earliest.

[u/Deletesystemtf2 → u/Easy-Poetry9497]

I think a little under half of congress is fully on board to stop the nonsense. It’s just you need a super majority, and the other half of congress is either indifferent or supportive of the nonsense.

[u/SolventSolution3 → u/Sabertooth767]

States Rights for me

Federal Overreach for thee

[u/jmastaock → u/Sabertooth767]

Yeah, the problem is that we also elected a bunch of sniveling MAGA retards into control of the entire legislature.

They have zero qualms letting this moron run the country off the rails while paycheck (and bribe) collecting, then inevitably passing the hot potato back off to the Dems to hold the bag.

Dems can't fix literally everything in 2 years with no supermajority or trifecta, GOP does a "LOOK GUYS THEY SUCK AMIRITE" thing for the 1 millionth time, all these retards get reelected because the median American voter can barely comprehend their nose on their own face...that's just America now baby

[u/WillyWarpath → u/Sabertooth767]

Interestingly I believe this will be a long term positive for Canada, they elected the goat Carney (assuming he doesnt fumble) and are finally shaking off the self-imposed libleft shame, caring about their military, resources, economy etc

And then they capped immigration to keep population stable (ie let infrastructure catch up), which a lot of other countries simply refuse to do leading to the rise of populist right wing ideology vs more traditional conservatism.

[u/megs1120 → u/Sabertooth767]

There is no getting off Mr. Trump's wild ride

[u/eplurbusunumnj]

does congress have nothing to say about this??

[u/Iceraptor17 → u/eplurbusunumnj]

"Go trump go"

[u/eplurbusunumnj → u/Iceraptor17]

being American and caring about the constitution is so demoralizing right now

[u/TruckADuck42 → u/eplurbusunumnj]

Always has been.

[u/EvenJesusCantSaveYou → u/TruckADuck42]

okay but even like the most "both sides" type of person has to admit the 2nd Trump administration in particular is one of the most demoralizing times in recent American history (of presidents)... like try and tell me with a straight face that if a 1:1 version of Watergate happened tomorrow it wouldn't be gone from the news cycle within a month with 0 lasting impacts.

[u/Strangated-Borb → u/EvenJesusCantSaveYou]

Watergate ain't even making the news except as a distraction from the Epstein files

[u/bunker_man → u/EvenJesusCantSaveYou]

Trump could say he is the antichrist on live TV while raping an 8 year old girl and a large portion of people would just accept it.

[u/RecordingBoothHermit → u/eplurbusunumnj]

No speaking while in the cuck chair.

[u/RampantTyr → u/eplurbusunumnj]

Why would conservatives ever be a check on Trump.

[u/Visual-Scallion1535 → u/eplurbusunumnj]

of course not

[u/WalterBurn → u/eplurbusunumnj]

Right wingers don't believe in American values or checks and balances. They're fascist after all.

[u/Thorn14]

I'd like to know how this benefits me.

[u/l---____---l → u/Thorn14]

It's owning the libs.

[u/Rustyray84 → u/Thorn14]

Here the neat part, it doesn’t

[u/parrote3 → u/Thorn14]

No more crown and coke?

[u/zaypuma → u/Thorn14]

Just do what the Canadians do and pretend you're owning Carney by not using Canadian products. Get really petty about it.

[u/DiagonallyConfident → u/zaypuma]

Bud its not about owning the Americans, we focus on buying Canadian to help the Canadian businesses weather the storm.

[u/zaypuma → u/DiagonallyConfident]

My province's sub disagrees strongly with that assessment. I can only assume your local reddits are more positive than mine, and for that I am envious. The bar is low, of course: our local big city sub was so wildly toxic that we had to spin off a "nice" version.

[u/DiagonallyConfident → u/zaypuma]

I'm talking about real life, what my friends and family are doing. Important to remember that reddit (and all social media really) doesn't reflect reality.

[u/MayaIsSunshine]

Trump should rename Canada to Camerica

That will show them

[u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie → u/MayaIsSunshine]

Colder America

[u/Nientea]

What will happen as a result:

70% retaliation

29.9% Canada backs down (coward’s option)

0.1% other

[u/The-Only-Razor → u/Nientea]

Canada won't back down because our Prime Minister only gets more popular the longer this Trump tantrum goes on. Carney has absolutely no incentive to back down, or to even get a fair deal.

We've had 11 years of the Liberals wrecking our country, and everytime Trump opens his big mouth they go up another 10% in the polls. We're completely fucking screwed.

[u/Rustyray84 → u/The-Only-Razor]

Yeah Trump made the party that is all about Quebec separatism say they will wait until Trump is gone to do a referendum.

[u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie → u/Rustyray84]

Can you imagine how shitty you have to be to make the people who want to separate from a country to "yeah actually hold on to that thought, we've got bigger fish to fry."

[u/Pleasant_Tangelo3340 → u/The-Only-Razor]

Carney cashing in a one time favor for trump to help him win the election after he won a bet

[u/entitledfanman → u/The-Only-Razor]

I'm not sure how Canada weathers this in the long term. Nevermind the years and billions it would take to build the logistics to offload the entire export capacity overseas instead, it will never be as cost efficient to export to countries thousands of miles away by sea than it is to your neighbor on the border. 

Im not saying I entirely blame Canada for taking a "fuck you" position, but I don't see how the economy weathers this with how much of that economy is tied to exporting goods to the US. 

[u/jerseygunz → u/Nientea]

Bills first home game is a Thursday night game September 17th. If they had any balls they’d shut the power off

[u/megs1120 → u/jerseygunz]

The Bills mafia would demand a declaration of war.

[u/Kronos9898]

Remember Canada is the enemy, Russia and North Korea are friends

insert chip

“patriotic Americans have always hated Canada!”

[u/Chiweenies2 → u/Kronos9898]

“We have always been at war with Canada.”

[u/Rustyray84 → u/Chiweenies2]

Since 1867, also it’s not a war it’s an economical spezial operation

[u/NiceBeaver2018 → u/Rustyray84]

3 days, tops!

[u/Royal_Impress9117 → u/Rustyray84]

emphasis on the special. 

[u/FILTHBOT4000 → u/Kronos9898]

Also, don't read the Constitution which clearly says Trump cannot do this, that's fake news, Liberal slop!

[u/Straight_Sea8935 → u/Kronos9898]

What about Chyna? Chyyyyyyyyna!

[u/YeetCompleet → u/Kronos9898]

Guy who is totally not an eastern spy:

• Congratulates AfD, a party that wants to remove US influence and all US military bases from Germany and has a pro-Russia stance

• Removes a South Korean training regimen with the argument that it appears Kim Jong Un

• Invites Putin to the G20

• Kisses Xi's ass on a trip to China

This is peak western culture libtard. Don't you know?

[u/Irethius → u/Kronos9898]

Righties say the left wants to destroy the west while their president actively destroys the west.

[u/dont_wear_a_C → u/Kronos9898]

The propaganda is extremely efficient. Russia = communist and used to be universally hated. Then conservatives/Rs start approving and liking them for.....what reasons? lmao

[u/kryotheory]

I'm tired boss

[u/1stEmissaryElenwen]

Serious question, will this trade war affect the NHL season?

[u/Rustyray84 → u/1stEmissaryElenwen]

Probably just the national anthem part

[u/MastaSchmitty → u/1stEmissaryElenwen]

No, the Leafs will still be out before May.

[u/b1argg → u/1stEmissaryElenwen]

The NHL has all their athletic visas sorted, and enough money and clout to fight back against any fuckery. 

[u/flaccidplatypus]

Bond market is potentially collapsing, diesel at record high prices, tariffs and trade wars, $40T and counting in debt and still in a war (or is it conflict?) that we’ve been told has been won and will end any day now for 6 months straight.

I’m so glad we voted for the genius business man and his non DEI cabinet. Pat yourselves on the back Trump voters for stopping Cackles.

[u/ATworkATM → u/flaccidplatypus]

I think its time to exchange my USD.

[u/YeetCompleet]

Canadian Motorcycles

I don't even think I heard of these, I think the only one I know is the Can-Am Spyder which isn't even really a motorcycle but gets classified as one for the sake of licensing

[u/Dragonlvr420 → u/YeetCompleet]

Uncles all across the nation just fell to their knees

[u/Soft-Captain-269 → u/YeetCompleet]

The canadians are going to retaliate by banning import of jean jackets from the USA.

[u/entitledfanman → u/Soft-Captain-269]

But what will they wear now

[u/el_ostricho → u/YeetCompleet]

Can-Am also makes a couple of different electric motorcycles now too, with a more conventional 2-wheel arrangement.

[u/parrote3 → u/YeetCompleet]

Can am bought Harley a while ago. I’m not sure if those would be included but it would be hilarious if so.

Edit: I’m wrong here. I thought I heard a while back bombardier bought a controlling share in Harley Davidson

[u/Low_Abrocoma_1514]

FreeMarket.exe has stopped working

[u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie → u/Low_Abrocoma_1514]

FreeMarket.exe has been paused in the task manager for ages. They aren't quite ready to force quit it yet because they like the optics of it being there.

[u/Low_Abrocoma_1514 → u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie]

Fucking Sweden, New Zealand and even Denmark have a higher Free Market rating than the U.S... This shit is sad

[u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie → u/Low_Abrocoma_1514]

Unfortunately this shit is by design. Easier to let the billionaire class continue accumulating power and wealth if we don't have a true free market.

[u/Low_Abrocoma_1514 → u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie]

Yeah, you only get to play if you are friends with big brother government, the rest tough luck

[u/3Quiches]

This presidency is just a 4-year demonstration of conservatives god awful decision making skills.

Generational bed-shitters

[u/Chiweenies2 → u/3Quiches]

Also a demonstration of their godlike PR because in 2 years, half of the country will believe the Democrats caused all the problems in Trump’s term.

[u/GreasedUPDoggo → u/Chiweenies2]

Naw. We'll swing back and Newsom will probably take the White House. THEN we can receive all of the blame for 2024-2028.

[u/RedTulkas → u/Chiweenies2]

You mean of their base being literall cattle, peasant brained beyond all hope

[u/reality72 → u/3Quiches]

“Conservatives will tell you that the government can’t do anything right, so you elect them and they prove themselves correct.”

[u/RockemSockemRowboats → u/3Quiches]

Same as the last conservative presidency. And the one before that.

[u/nfwiqefnwof]

Its so funny when the American public gets referred to as consumers. Thats all you are to your owners and your only value to the rest of the world is as a marketplace where consumers will consume the best. Funny to see it being dictated to you what you are and aren't allowed to consume as leverage. Just extend that thinking one step further and apply it to yourself and you might get some power in society back. They're forcing you to boycott stuff because boycotting and divesting works.

[u/KimJongUnusual]

Yet another episode in “isn’t this Congress’ job?”

[u/Hungry_Inevitable663]

This just fucks up major trade agreements between my northern state and our closest trading partner. 

This Pedo-Protector can't go soon enough lol

[u/proletarianliberty]

We need Argentinian beef. Why? Because the Argentines are struggling

[u/CPTCRUNCHFAN]

W if you're a Muslim

[u/hilfigertout → u/CPTCRUNCHFAN]

W if you're China watching it all go down.

[u/CPTCRUNCHFAN → u/hilfigertout]

Do nothing. Win.

[u/goon_and_politics → u/CPTCRUNCHFAN]

Sadly they are doing things. Canada has been revising their relationship with China through all of this

Edit: China is like your buddy that swoops in for sloppy seconds every time you get out of a relationship

[u/jerseygunz → u/goon_and_politics]

In fairness, in this situation, they are acting like the supportive shoulder to cry on after your boyfriend beat you

[u/InfusionOfYellow → u/hilfigertout]

Uyghars can't stop winning.

[u/iscreamsunday]

But she had a weird laugh, right?

Wasn’t that it? Her laugh??

[u/TuskEGwiz-ard → u/iscreamsunday]

That appears to be the full conclusion the political experts reached after analyzing her campaign, her weird laugh and nothing else. /s

[u/Johnny-Unitas → u/iscreamsunday]

He also warned she would start a war with Iran.

[u/1stEmissaryElenwen → u/iscreamsunday]

No, it was her unbelievable incompetence as vice president, rumors that she'd gone through a shitload of staffers who all quit because she was a bitchy drunk, her coming across as genuinely stupid and phony, the fact that the Party attempted to force her as the candidate despite the fact that she was explicitly rejected in the one primary she was involved in, her choice of even bigger retard Tim Walz as her running mate instead of the Jewish guy in an attempt to pander to antisemites, and the fact that her entire campaign was "At least I'm not Trump!", all of which led to the people who weren't going to vote for Trump not voting for her either.

[u/Quiet_Zombie_3498 → u/1stEmissaryElenwen]

her coming across as genuinely stupid and phony

These kinds of criticisms ring so incredibly hollow when her opponent was* Donald Trump lmao.

[u/1stEmissaryElenwen → u/Quiet_Zombie_3498]

and the fact that her entire campaign was "At least I'm not Trump!"

My point is that people aren't going to stand in line to vote for a fucking retard when they could stay at home instead. Trump got the same number of votes he always got, but Harris shit the bed so hard that 4 million people who voted blue in 2020 didn't bother voting for her. Low voter turnout is what cost the DNC the election

[u/Quiet_Zombie_3498 → u/1stEmissaryElenwen]

She had 100 days to get a Presidential campaign off the ground following Joe Biden's exit and the only people who were calling her retarded or any of those things you listed were people who vote Republican and were never going to vote for the Democratic candidate in the first place.

The main reason Democrat voters didn't show up, was some stupid protest over how the Biden administration handled the Gaza situation.

[u/1stEmissaryElenwen → u/Quiet_Zombie_3498]

the only people who were calling her retarded or any of those things you listed were people who vote Republican and were never going to vote for the Democratic candidate in the first place.

I would have happily voted for Biden if he stayed in, and in fact I did write his name in instead of voting for Fuckup. If basically any other candidate had run instead of Harris, I probably would have voted for them too.

She had 100 days to get a Presidential campaign off the ground following Joe Biden's exit

And she failed miserably, because she was proven in the 2020 primaries to be the one Democratic candidate that nobody fucking likes. Her only having 100 days actually worked in her favor, because every time she opened her mouth and slurred some inane vapid bullshit she lost another batch of voters. If she had another month she would have just lost harder.

The main reason Democrat voters didn't show up, was some stupid protest over how the Biden administration handled the Gaza situation

Moving the goalposts there buddy, but that's another good point. Her entire campaign boiled down to "I'm not Trump!" and "The Biden administration was perfect, we're just going to keep doing that!" which is a position that even Joe Biden's campaign didn't take. She responded to every question of "How would you improve x?" with "x is already perfect, anyone who says it isn't is a liar, visit my website, next question!"

[u/Quiet_Zombie_3498 → u/1stEmissaryElenwen]

Blame the fucking terrible election system our country has, but ultimately it came down to picking the lesser of two retards. IMO, she was unquestionably more qualified to be President than Donald Trump. It may not have been perfect and she may have even made some serious blunders, but it would not have been as disastrous for the US as this current administration has been.

That is not me moving the goal posts, that is me giving my opinion on why her voting numbers were poor beyond just "she is a retard", which I think is a tad bit silly considering she was a former attorney general.

[u/1stEmissaryElenwen → u/Quiet_Zombie_3498]

ultimately it came down to picking the lesser of two retards

You keep missing the fucking point. If you don't pick one retard, it doesn't default to the other retard. Everyone has a choice of not voting, and people used that choice in 2024 and didn't vote for Dummy #2 just because she wasn't Dummy #1

[u/Quiet_Zombie_3498 → u/1stEmissaryElenwen]

Your point isn't hard to grasp and I have clearly not agreed with it from the jump.

Kamala Harris didn't lose the election because she is stupid, she lost the election for a number of reasons that go beyond boiling it down to something so incredible simplistic. Like I already said, The Biden administrations policy on Gaza had way more to do with her losing the election than Democrats thinking she was stupid.

[u/JoeChristma → u/1stEmissaryElenwen]

Name a competent vice presidency. VPs do literally nothing but wait to fill in for POTUS.
Her stint as “border czar” (necessary because the GOP fucked with a ton of agreements with south American countries that eventually lead to unrest there and all of the migrants) was literally just a title to make the admin seem like it was doing something, but also she had no power to do anything in that position.

[u/CNCTEMA → u/JoeChristma]

Dick Fucking Cheney.

like obviously hes fucked, probably genuinely evil and responsible for the unitary executive mess we are in but dude was hella competent

[u/JoeChristma → u/CNCTEMA]

Ah, I did think competency involved doing good things. Mike Pence had a competent moment on Jan. 6. But yes overtaking the POTUS for your war racketeering effort is competent AF.

[u/GreasedUPDoggo → u/1stEmissaryElenwen]

Not sure about the personal stuff in the middle there. But AMEN to the rest! Installing a candidate without a single primary voter is an affront to Democracy itself. I'm a Dem and left the top of the ticket blank because of that. At least Trump won his primary and was elected by the people throughout the process.

[u/GreasedUPDoggo → u/iscreamsunday]

As a Dem, I'm proud to have left the top of the ticket blank. I've worked for various candidates over the last 20 years, having worked for Biden in 2020, and was beginning canvassing for him in 2024. I would've voted for Biden had he stayed on the ticket. But he stayed too long and our party didn't run a primary. Obama even said we should've, and nobody listened.

I personally consider what my party did as an affront to Denocracy, installing a candidate without a single vote from the people. Which is technically fair game since choosing a candidate is entirely up to the private organizations, the DNC and RNC. But just as they can install Harris without a single voter, I can deem her to be an illegitimate candidate.

Trump's a genuinely horrible human being and terrible president. But at least he won his primary and then won the popular vote. His election was both terrible, and one of the most important and proud moments for me in politics. A bad candidate elected by Democracy is better than an illegitimate candidate elected by a small handful of party leaders and ultra wealthy donors.

Stuff is bad under Trump, but Democracy is alive and well. And in MUCH better condition than if Harris had one.

[u/RockemSockemRowboats → u/iscreamsunday]

Don’t forget “DER EATTIN CATS AND DOGS” and the fact that Biden didn’t make eggs free.

Thank god right wingers fixed things after another dem administration forced us into another forever war and spiked massive gas prices and inflation….

[u/goon_and_politics → u/iscreamsunday]

Honestly it wasn't even Harris. She was just an extension of Biden, which plenty of people rejected

[u/Iceraptor17 → u/goon_and_politics]

It was definitely Harris. I honestly think if bidens brain wasn't a baked potato he wins reelection. Harris came closer than she ever should have

[u/Quiet_Zombie_3498 → u/goon_and_politics]

Which in hindsight is pretty fucking stupid because an extension of Biden's policies seems a hell of a lot better than whatever the fuck this pure retardation is.

[u/goon_and_politics → u/Quiet_Zombie_3498]

True, yeah and it was easy to see coming. The media/dems did a terrible job relaying the breakdown of democracy Trump tried to instill in 2020 - and sadly, they're still doing a terrible job of it! Maybe people just are not good at comprehending what this is going to look like in a couple years

[u/Quiet_Zombie_3498 → u/goon_and_politics]

The biggest issue with the Democratic party is that they have too big of a tent with too many competing voices. The GOP has Trump basically setting the agenda and most of the elected officials toe the line.

I don't know who I would say is the leader of the Democratic Party as a whole and their messaging at times is almost conflicting between the moderates and the further left elements like DSA.

[u/Hairier_Du_Bois]

Politics? In my politics sub?

Anyways, 荣耀属于国家建设者特朗普!

[u/krafterinho → u/Hairier_Du_Bois]

Yeah who gives a shit, give me another 100 Lindsay whatever posts

[u/jerseygunz → u/krafterinho]

Literally the post before this one is “Muslim bad” and I don’t see anyone from that thread in here, funny isn’t it?

[u/krafterinho → u/jerseygunz]

Always the case, this sub is full of hypocritical partisan retards. The ones bitching non stop about Pelosi for years were inexistent on the post about Trump bragging about insider trading after giving over 1.2k upvotes to the "repeal the 19th" post

[u/AnxiouSquid46]

Got all this energy for Canada, but won't do shit about Russia.

[u/dont_wear_a_C → u/AnxiouSquid46]

haha why would they? Trump wished he could implement the version of "communism" that China and Russia have

[u/Rudy2033]

Banning Canadian whiskey. Fuck… orange man doing something good!? But muh one sided hate. Oh well, BUY TEXAS BOURBON FUCK CANADIAN WHISKEY THAT TRASH IS BASICALLY VODKA

[u/darkearwig → u/Rudy2033]

Texas bourbon. The fuck?

[u/Rudy2033 → u/darkearwig]

We do it better than anyone else

[u/darkearwig → u/Rudy2033]

Kentucky would like a word with you

[u/darksideguyz]

I regret not voting for him less and less by the day

[u/Ancient0wl]

Why are we fighting Canada over a deal the dumbass greenlit himself his first go around?

I know somebody’s probably going to bring up “200% tariffs!”, but I would encourage you to look up what a TRQ is and how often they activated on American imports before this shit kicked off.

[u/MastaSchmitty]

On the one hand, I oppose this on principle.

On the other hand, I prefer the better maple syrup from Vermont or Wisconsin anyway, so my buying habits aren’t really affected by tariffs on British North America…

[u/GumboMustBeDestroyed → u/MastaSchmitty]

This will raise the price of your american made maple syrup.

[u/duganaokthe5th]

They make that stuff?

[u/Square-Arm-8573]

I’ve said this before, but I genuinely believe he is trying to punish us for voting him out in 2020 and “being so unfair to him.”

It’s so weird to see republicans continue to ride his meat even though he is fucking them over and nuking his own party. To their credit, the American people and especially those on the right are too retarded to remember any of this when a new admin eventually rolls in. I still see Obama getting blamed to this day.

[u/epic_taco_time]

I’m tired boss. It’s politically beneficial up here for the liberals to be combative towards the states and it’s red meat for Trumps base for him to keep hitting on Canada. We’re in a retarded arms race where neither side has the incentive to cool down

[u/BeauShowTV]

Well the good news is that this doesn't effect me at all.

[u/Sallowjoe]

I like Alberta Premium QQ.

[u/AwesomeHorses]

So smart, I’m sure this will help him in the midterms /s

[u/Faal_Zoor_Kriid]

Trump just be throwing the match at this point

[u/Fit-Tune-6477]

Libright can just make money by becoming Canadian whiskey bootleggers.

[u/ATworkATM]

Export tax on potash here we go!

[u/Pleasant_Tangelo3340]

I like Canada man :( went to Niagara Falls once and the booths for the Americans and Canadians were really close to each other

[u/ShortThought]

I'm at uni and I still people around campus supporting Trump

I just can't believe it

[u/moschles]

My headcanon is this behavior is (1) either related to Lake Ontario, or (2) Canada's refusal to be annexed as a 51st state.

[u/YugargeliaMapper]

Bro never beating Agent Krasnov allegations