U.S. President Donald Trump says he is terminating all trade negotiations with Canada over an advertisement by the Ontario government that uses the late U.S. president Ronald Reagan's own words to send an anti-tariff message to American audiences.
In a late-night post to his Truth Social platform, Trump attacked the ad, which he attributed to Canada rather than Ontario, as fraudulent and fake.
"TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A." Trump wrote. "Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED."
So I guess CUSMA is dead?
72 Comments
ragepaw@lemmy.ca · 93 pts · 314d
What a whiney little bitch.
Skin thinner than a tissue.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 314d
It's called economic terrorism. Fascists try to financially harm anyone they disagree with... until they gain enough power to murder anyone they disagree with.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 314d
Skinnier that half-ply toilet paper. And about as irritating.
AGM@lemmy.ca · 82 pts · 314d
The advert is literally just Reagan's voice from an address he gave against tariffs along with stock video of people and places. That's it.
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 314d
Surprisingly, Twitter users are even defending Canada against the overt bullshit that the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation put out. I expected much less fact-checking and more tribalism from Elon's social media website but came away pleasantly surprised.
https://xcancel.com/RonaldReagan/status/1981524620265046408
turdcollector69@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 313d
They're starting to erase the supposed tenants of conservative values, worshipping Regan and small government.
The small government stuff was always bullshit but until now he's been able/forced to hide behind Regan conservatives. Now he's conflicting with their jesus and doing it in a very overt way.
I do think attacks like this are highly effective because it forces their cognitive dissonance into scrutiny and it's another chip in the brainwashing.
Many can be swayed like this though anyone who's made it their identity is too far gone because they won't accept logical arguments.
sixpaque@lemmy.ca · 42 pts · 314d
He is not a politician with grace; he is a whiner with a baby attitude, one who also gets mad when he doesn't get his own way. All I can say is, what a sad situation the Americans are in.
TomatoPotato69@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 314d
It took ~16 years for Chile to get rid of their US installed military dictatorship when the US decided to ruin their popular social democracy and slaughter people and fuck up countless lives. And much longer to rebuild after Pinochet fell. I wouldn't be suprised if it takes at least 16 years for parts of the US to start crawling out of their current dictatorship (with or without donny). And it sure looks like it's going to be just as brutal if not more. It's just getting started and there is a very long way for them to fall. 2025 is going to look like a very tame year compared to what is coming, I suspect.
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 314d
Yeah we will see 2025 as the year one elected official was not sworn in (they were elected in a bi-election), because of Trumps “big Beautiful Bill.” 2026 will be the year that elections are cancelled.
Remember there are still 2 and a bit months left for the US to collapse this year, and the government shutdown is still on!
grte@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 314d
Once again proving what a trade deal with this person is worth. We should definitely be making sacrifices to secure a deal with this calm, level headed, emotional rock. It would surely not be casting pearls before swine.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 36 pts · 314d
my canucks here in crazytown we have gone full on "rule of man"
the "rule of law" is dead in the USA
breezeblock@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 314d
Speaking of canucks — we cash just ask Evander Kane to call up his maga buddies
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 36 pts · 314d
Trump can fuck off.
Fine, they need us more than we need them right now. I’m confident in that.
Enjoy having no steel aluminum or fertilizer.
snoons@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 314d
Or uranium.
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 314d
Or oil: most of their refineries are for heavy crude, the stuff we sell them.
Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 314d
Medical isotopes...
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 313d
Also Putin.
smh@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 313d
Isn't Canada essential for most of the USA's toilet paper supply?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 313d
I think they're using their own constitution of that these days.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 313d
They can buy all that from Putin.
IndridCold@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 313d
If Russia sold ALL of the potash it produced to the USA, they would still fall way short of what the US needs.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 313d
Assuming it hasn't already been blown up by Ukraine first. Russia's industry is rather tied up right now.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 314d
Fine. Doctorow time: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/what-if-canada-stopped-upholding-u-s-tech-companies-intellectual-property/
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 314d
DST back is a start.
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 313d
I have almost all of my US services turned off I just pay for Apple’s cloud, although I could probably stop paying the $1.something as I am using Canadian cloud services now. I have my own .ca domain which has unlimited email addresses (on a Canadian host) so that I can create anonymous emails to slow trackers so I am worthless to the US advertising companies (like the Google). The only reason I still have a gmail account is for YouTube, I however use apps to block ads and trackers. I have a pihole system on my LAN to block trackers and ads, and I use the *arr apps for US TV shows. All though my pihole blocks ads on the CBC app I still pay for it, I get most of my news from CBC now.
Boing@lemmy.ca · -9 pts · 313d
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 313d
Someone found a new gif.
Boing@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 312d
oascany@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 313d
What
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 314d
Please let the silver lining be this exploding in Douggie's face. 🤞
Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 314d
No problem, let's also stop supplying power for the entire Northeast then. At this point our population is nearly 100% committed to dealing with the difficulties of cutting ties with the US.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 314d
Just export tariffs on electricity, other energy, metals and potash. This still makes energy, manufacturing, cheaper for Canadians, while generating social revenue.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 313d
Ford did that, then he stopped. Not a tariff, a surcharge.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 313d
That will be easy, because we never did. We actually buy US power in certain seasons. If only media would tell us the reality instead of quoting Doug Ford.
https://www.ieso.ca/power-data/supply-overview/imports-and-exports
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 313d
Whoa whoa whoa, wait, that link you just sent shows the exports as way higher, maybe I'm missing something?
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 28 pts · 314d
No, why would it be? It's already in effect, Trump would need to explicitly withdraw from it to make it stop being in effect.
He might do that, of course. He's randomly throwing tantrums and his dementia-riddled brain could come up with any random impulse for him to follow. But this isn't that.
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 314d
CUSMA is up for renegotiations.
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 9 pts · 313d
In 2026. That's decades away.
The US could announce withdrawal at any time with six months' notice, sure, but that has not happened yet.
villasv@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 313d
It's funny and sad how this rings so accurate
villasv@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 313d
Doug Ford can eat shit all the way but it is pretty funny how he's doing the slightest efforts to pretend to have a backbone... but even a whiff of non-acquiescence evokes the full might of authoritarians so it ends up having almost the same effect as actually be fighting back hard as nails. This timeline is messed up that this moron doing jack shit is being consequential.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 313d
He let every single greenhouse in Ontario get bought out by a US company, while he only concentrates on alcohol for his simps.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 313d
American here.
At least you Canadians don't have to watch this happen to your own country. It's rough watching from within as an epidemic of stupidity cripples your nation and tanks your quality of life, likely for the remainder of your life.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 313d
Trust me. It's leaking into ours as well. And don't think this doesn't affect us. We've been very close economic partners to a point that we both rely on each other. This hurts us a lot.
Yezzey@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 313d
They are trying to use the same playbook up here.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 313d
nah it's rough watching it start up here too. obviously less rough, but still, it's growing
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 10 pts · 313d
As an Albertan...fucking LOL.
comador@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 314d
At this point they should just put a travel ban on the Trump family from entering Canada.
I'd love to see Donny Jr and Eric cry getting turned away from visiting Vancouver.
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 314d
DJTJ is only going to cry if that is where he was planning on getting his next bump from, Eric is going to cry when his Dad tells him that Vancouver is the one place that he will get emotional attention.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 314d
He was right, Canada did come out of this happy.
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 313d
A lot has happened today after Trump's tirade. Ontario's Premier Doug Ford announced he would be suspending this Ad Campaign after consulting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/queens-park/article/doug-ford-says-hell-pause-anti-tariff-ad-that-infuriated-trump-as-of-next-week-but-will-still-show-it-during-world-series/
Manitoba's Premier Wab Kinew has a short video in the same style as the ad where he supports this Ontario Ad Campaign. It's a well done quick response:
https://xcancel.com/WabKinew/status/1981753253055361219
I think the Ontario Ad is very well done and I'm glad to see a NDP Premier supporting a Conservative Premier on this and a Conservative Premier publicly supporting a Liberal Prime Minister. Canada is uniting and Trump is unhappy.
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 313d
This is awesome!
Sunshine@piefed.social · 16 pts · 314d
wampus@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 313d
I think the best part is Trump saying Canada's doin it to influence the Supreme Courts decision. As if Canadians don't already understand that the way you influence the Supreme court in the US is to bribe the Republican Justices, like Clarence Thomas. That guys for sale for sure.
GrindingGears@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 314d
Canada should say cool brah, we are terminating trade. Canadians you have 72 hours, borders are closing.
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 314d
i love the vib you are dropping but closing boarders is the wrong thing to do.
jaemo@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 314d
Until it isn't...
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 313d
why? genuinely curious why that would be bad to not have open borders with a country that clearly loves to threaten and extort and blackmail?
if my street neighbours did that to me, I'd never grant them access to my property either.
xthexder@l.sw0.com · 4 pts · 313d
Think of it more like a fight with your neighbor's landlord who's promoting bullshit with the HOA. Banning your neighbors from visiting doesn't really solve the issue and just hurts regular people.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 313d
Is it even practically possible? There are cities where one side of the street is a different country than the other side.
GrindingGears@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 313d
I dunno about it being wrong. It's time. Let's say the quiet part out loud, we don't want these people having such access anymore. I love America, I love Americans, but they are having a moment and it's time to restrict their access.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 313d
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 9 pts · 313d
It's pointless to negotiate with an insane person.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 314d
Canada/Ontario is not allowed to have the Reagan opinion that tariffs are bad in order for (totally constructive with progress) negotiations to resume?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 313d
Nein! You cannot contradict der Fuhrer!
Boing@lemmy.ca · -5 pts · 313d
villasv@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 312d
wtf
Jhex@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 313d
thin skin bitch
Boing@lemmy.ca · -13 pts · 313d
oascany@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 313d
And maybe it's a good time for us to diversify.
Boing@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 313d
Boing@lemmy.ca · -11 pts · 313d
Saffire@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 313d
Wtf?
Boing@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 312d
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 313d
You know you can go outside right?
Boing@lemmy.ca · -3 pts · 313d
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 313d
Nah, you're on the internet and you're shitposting like non-stop for the last 24/hours of this accounts existance . Go get some air.
Boing@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 312d
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 312d
Very cool how Carney controls US tariffs on Canada. That's amazing, he's the best.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 313d
A note to beaten housewives everywhere: don't try to leave your husband because you'll lose your financial security. 🙄
Boing@lemmy.ca · -10 pts · 313d
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 313d
A cogent, well-reasoned response. I'm convinced!
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 313d
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Boing@lemmy.ca · -9 pts · 313d
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 313d
All of your responses boil down to, "I disagree and you hurt my feelings." I wouldn't call that statement brilliant, but I guess it could be to some. If you don't want to be mistaken for a snowflake, you might want to not let yourself get too worked up when strangers on the internet disagree with you.
If typing is hard, copy this:
Read up on it, and you might have an idea why your responses do little to promote your opinions.
And if you want to use memes to get the point across, here's mine:
Boing@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 312d
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 313d
You need help.
Boing@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 312d