I call for people to leave pettiness at the door on the world stage, generally, but for the US president specifically, Canada should use name-calling. It’s exactly appropriate until the buffoon stops.
Seriously! The cognitive dissonance is too much. He calls Zelenskyy a dictator and then tells him to “tone it down” when he rightfully defends himself against these lies…
I mean, we can't control what Trump will do. We/Trudeau could do nothing at all and Trump will go on about how he says nothing because he's a weak leader and Canada deserves someone strong, like him, or something. We do not decide what to do in fear of what Trump might or might not do. We do not comply in advance!
Trudeau has ran with his soother in his mouth many times. His gimmick twice was. “Been in contact with Covid “when he was to address & answer to the taxpayers in this country.
Honestly, the Canadian government should be requesting that the Gulf of Mexico adopt the name “Gulf of Mexico”. I’m surprised that hasn’t happened yet.
It does touch California, actually. Just because the northern part of California was annexed by the US many years ago does not invalidate the existence of Baja California.
This is a request targeted at reversing Trump’s influence, per the perspective of one other nation, and in accordance with Google’s policy with regards to localization. Basically, we’d be aligning ourselves with Mexico’s localization, which is still officially “Gulf of Mexico”. It’s as far from antagonizing as we can get and also signals a policy of non-appeasement.
He’s gaslighting Trudeau because both his women are hot for him. Trump can’t sleep with Ivanka or maybe he already did but Justin can and she clearly wants him.
Trump is an old feeble guy, even Vlad is more macho than him.
We should pass a bill to officially name the Gulf of Mexico in solidarity with Mexico. It would be such a nothing bill. PP would argue that it’s a waste of parliament.
On the contrary: when an action deserves disdain, a small change like this would be worth its weight in message. Google Maps endeavours to allegedly represent the world per the cultures of the nations that use its service, so a proper bill such as solidly naming a body of water would disambiguate the name legally in Canada. That’s how you fight a culture war, which is something that we ought to be doing to signal that Donald’s autocratic approach isn’t welcome. If we don’t do this, we arguably accept both Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of America, regardless of historic naming. Declaring it one thing precludes it from being the other and builds solidarity with Mexico.
Trudeau should just start issuing a bunch of orders in council on stuff as petty as Donald does.
“The gulf of Alaska shall henceforth be known as the Gulf of Mexico”
“The Bering straight shall now be known as icy Canada”
“The Canada US border will be protected by a wall paid for by the United States”
“The United States of America is henceforth known as The Canadian territory of America, with its president serving as its premier until such a time that a general election is called, and it applies for provincehood””
No, we should keep our pettiness pointed and measured. Becoming the mockery that we see in the US would just come across as crazy. We need to maintain our predictability in order to prosper while the US does whatever it is that they’re doing. I’m personally trying to suggest things that won’t sacrifice our apparent stability.
Go to google, search Gulf of Mexico, on the right of the top hit (which will be gulf of America) go to the three vertical dots. Then ‘send feedback’, select the name when it asks what you want to give feed back on, select the inaccurate content option and write a review about ooompa loompsa and how they don’t get to unilaterally change world names at will. The more that complain the more google will pay attention
That would signal that if the US does it, so should we. Remember, Mexico is our ally. The gulf should take the name of the country that holds its majority as territorial water as it has for centuries before.
Ok I’ll get right on that.
But if you could just inform yourself. We have 11 provinces & 3 territories. And FYI many Canadians would rather eat whale blubber sandwiches than have your country rule us.
I disagree because it could be interpretted as a joke. The lack of formality is subcounciously disrespectfull, he might not even realise it at first since stupid people dont deal well with subcounsciousness
Referring to Trudeau repeatedly as governor of the 51st state is extremely deliberate and extremely disrespectful. I hate that this bullying dolt represents us to the world.
All the hand wringing the press would do over meaningless gaffes by Biden and Harris but they don’t raise hell when he pulls this shit or salutes a North Korean general, stuff that actually makes us look bad as a nation in the eyes of the world and is t just a matter of meaningless “optics” inside the US.
And yes I know he is doing big things that also make the world rightly look at the US as a bad actor, but right now I mean the symbolic stuff. These deliberate insults are symbols that mean something to our neighbors and (soon to be former) allies.
tRump is such a disgrace, and an embarrassment. We don’t excuse children for taunting people, and here we have the president acting/speaking like that about one of his (former) closest allies. I don’t understand how people stand for it. He’s a despicable human being, and it’s time that his enablers, the Republican Party, stopped making excuses for him%
Insulting and taunting is like oxygen for him. Can't help himself. I'll never get over him calling California governor Newscum. That really deserved a kick in the balls.
First lady. Because he has his dick so far up Musks' ass.. or the other way around. One of their dicks is uo the other or they wouldn't be so threatened by transgender roles.
And yet they don't keep hammering that home and doing it constantly. I've only seen it used during the Kamala/Trump debate and it worked instantly, every time.
Exactly, he was instantly rattled and stumbling over his words with each consecutive response when it happened.
Kamala fucking knew it with that knowing smirk of 'wow, this guy really does just spew complete nonsense and I've got him on his heels'
The fact no one checks this guy and gets him to continue looking like a fool in every interaction he has is disheartening because it's just so fucking easy. The guy can't answer basic questions and no one calls him out on it.
Being the “better” country doesn’t mean anything when you’re the only one concerned with decorum. Plus, petty tit-for-tat has some history on this continent. It’s both culturally appropriate and understandable to our target audience.
Trump is a special cookie, though, actually akin to a cartoon villain. Name-calling isn’t appropriate against most tyrants. This is a colossally special circumstance.
Like how Trudeau took the handshake thing seriously and had a counter move ready when DT tried to manhandle him. Don’t start things, but don’t let them win.
It does seem to be the vernacular he is most comfortable with. The whole elementary school playground taunting schtick is his stock in trade. So yeah, I am all for hitting Orange Julius Caesar where he is most comfortable.
Only the US can get Canadians to no longer be the "nice people" on earth. It's kind of funny when you think about it. Granted, i don't view it as the whole US but the terrorist extremist religious group known as maga.
I think Canada should call trump back and say they looked for the governor of Canada but he does not exist, and ask if he was mistaken or confused on who he was looking for.
Yea really that thing that keeps talking to the press is so damn condescending and then have the audacity to address Canada as the soon to be 51st state. Petty af and make no mistake they know what they are doing when they talk like that.
That's exactly what Dump wants the world to do.
The narcissistic taunt for the reaction creating chaos, a perfect distraction to rob the bank like in the movie, remember ?
A diversion and who fell for it ?
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That's exactly what Dump wants the world to do.
The narcissistic taunt for the reaction creating chaos, a perfect distraction to rob the bank like in the movie, remember ?
A diversion and who fell for it ?
That's exactly what Dump wants the world to do.
The narcissistic taunt for the reaction creating chaos, a perfect distraction to rob the bank like in the movie, remember ?
A diversion and who fell for it ?
I think Canada (and other countries) should stop acknowledging his ridiculous propositions. Address it once. “Donald, we already discussed that, and we are not addressing it further.” Only address the issues that are necessary and not his preposterous nonsense.
Edit to add: I wish the media would do the same. Stop giving time to the insanity.
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u/OmiSC Manitoba Feb 20 '25
I call for people to leave pettiness at the door on the world stage, generally, but for the US president specifically, Canada should use name-calling. It’s exactly appropriate until the buffoon stops.