The contrast of Trump saying he wants to annex us repeatedly, will get Greenland, and that America wants Venezuela’s oil, then fucking taking over their government “indefinitely” and stating the US will now own and sell their oil is fucking terrifying.
This needs to be the moment our government looks over and starts taking this seriously. And not “we’ll start building an in 10 years” kinda seriously, taking action today.
We need to remember the lessons we learned in WWII building the 4th largest air force, and 3rd largest navy in the world. 765 thousand troops for a nation of only 11.8 million.
We have 40 million ish people now, 12 old frigates, 3 dog eared subs, and 79 fighter jets half of which aren't operational. We have so much work to do, we are kind of fucked if we don't turn this shit around fast.
I don’t think we need to go for top quality right now either.
Just start fucking welding together ships and drones. We have machine jobs and an auto industry that’s doing. We don’t need fully tooled, we have machine solos who can start building small scale fast.
Everything Ukraine has done to become a leader in drone production we could do, and frankly I think drones and nukes would be our best quick investments.
Advanced radar woods be good too, like we’re buying from Australia.
Deleting windows from all government systems needs to be done, and removing azure from all workflows for as Canadian clouds like OVH (I know they’re French).
Cloud is basically fungible these days if you can stand up hardware, which I know exists in this country.
But really, you don’t build advanced if you can’t build simple, and that’s the muscle we need to flex.
The cons won't allow that kind of expense though, as all funding needs to go to American oil barons so they can create and own corporations that get 98%+ of Alberta oil proceeds. That's their play, and spending on Canadians isn't really helping their goals.
This is going to fucking wreck Canada’s oil economy, and his buddies are going to be shitting their pants right now because Trump is saying the US is going to just sell Venezuela’s oil to everyone.
If the US actually succeeds (huge if, they control exactly 0.00% of Venezuela right now), this is will crash the Albertan economy into the earth's core. And Albertans will, somehow, blame the Liberals.
No wonder PP's celebrating, then. The CPC hasn't considered anything outside of Alberta and Saskatchewan to be "Canada" since they molted their Reform Party carapace.
Nobody is making any money from Venezuelan oil any time soon, their oil infrastructure is in shambles and it'll take 100 billion investment and 10 years to get it going. Investors balk at investing somewhere where their investment gets blown up on a daily basis, and their employees are murdered or kidnapped frequently.
I wonder if he even considered a more carefully worded message that didn't condone open violations of international law. Surely there was a way to say this that was less ball-suckingly sycophantic and maybe even, god forbid, a little bit respectful of the people in Canada who are able to see the danger that Trump poses.
Jesus fucking christ. If you ever need evidence to explain why Poilievre lost the election to one of the weakest Liberal runs Canada has seen in modern history, here it is. Tone deaf isn't enough to describe it. Clueless feels too weak. He's completely disassociated from the Canadian perspective.
Conservatives are afraid of socialism because they lack critical thinking skills and believe it when people say the nazis were genuine socialists. Socialism = nazis for many conservatives. Racism, genocide, and state sanctioned violence is not nazi like behavior in the eyes of many conservatives.
He knows his brain dead audience though. They hate socialism, communism, liberals, and it doesn't matter that they don't know what any of those words mean.
With all the damage Cons are doing, I wonder when people will wake up to the fact that this "socialism" the Cons keep attacking is actually the good guys.
Looking on from the outside, Canadian citizens may be screwed either way the wind blows. Saying something as tone-deaf as this is going to convince people to keep strategically voting against him, so either he wins and sells out the country, or he loses and yall end up in the same two-party system that is easily captured by corporations and billionaires.
Christ Almighty this guy can't do anything without trying to hurt other people, divide the country, or advocate for its destruction.
His whole life has been government funded. Hey Pierre, not everyone gets multiple hundreds of thousands a year in a golden pension, most of us rely on CPP as an important component of retirement. Socialized medicine and other programs make our country strong.
60 Comments
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca · 159 pts · 236d
Canadians hatred of Trump is burning hot right now. We vividly remember all of the threats Trump made of invading Canada.
and here PP is celebrating Trump invading another country. This man couldn't be more tone-deaf if he tried.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 67 pts · 236d
The contrast of Trump saying he wants to annex us repeatedly, will get Greenland, and that America wants Venezuela’s oil, then fucking taking over their government “indefinitely” and stating the US will now own and sell their oil is fucking terrifying.
This needs to be the moment our government looks over and starts taking this seriously. And not “we’ll start building an in 10 years” kinda seriously, taking action today.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 236d
We need to prepare for war NOW
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 235d
We need to remember the lessons we learned in WWII building the 4th largest air force, and 3rd largest navy in the world. 765 thousand troops for a nation of only 11.8 million.
We have 40 million ish people now, 12 old frigates, 3 dog eared subs, and 79 fighter jets half of which aren't operational. We have so much work to do, we are kind of fucked if we don't turn this shit around fast.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 235d
I don’t think we need to go for top quality right now either.
Just start fucking welding together ships and drones. We have machine jobs and an auto industry that’s doing. We don’t need fully tooled, we have machine solos who can start building small scale fast.
Everything Ukraine has done to become a leader in drone production we could do, and frankly I think drones and nukes would be our best quick investments.
Advanced radar woods be good too, like we’re buying from Australia.
Deleting windows from all government systems needs to be done, and removing azure from all workflows for as Canadian clouds like OVH (I know they’re French).
Cloud is basically fungible these days if you can stand up hardware, which I know exists in this country.
But really, you don’t build advanced if you can’t build simple, and that’s the muscle we need to flex.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 235d
The cons won't allow that kind of expense though, as all funding needs to go to American oil barons so they can create and own corporations that get 98%+ of Alberta oil proceeds. That's their play, and spending on Canadians isn't really helping their goals.
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 94 pts · 236d
"All Hail The Pedophile Rapist Despot!"
-- PP
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 33 pts · 236d
Finally, he has an excuse to say it.
I'm guessing it's still a misstep when it comes to winning an election in the future; the story isn't over yet.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 78 pts · 236d
What a fucking embarrassment.
grte@lemmy.ca · 72 pts · 236d
What an incredibly stupid message when a lot of Canadians have to be thinking, "Are we next?"
Threeskittiesinatrenchcoat@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 236d
To be fair, a Trump regime change is his best chance at actually ever becoming PM.
Many of his loyal base would welcome an American invasion at this point.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 70 pts · 236d
This guy has no fucking clue
This is going to fucking wreck Canada’s oil economy, and his buddies are going to be shitting their pants right now because Trump is saying the US is going to just sell Venezuela’s oil to everyone.
Fuck you Pollievre, you fucking moron.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 236d
If the US actually succeeds (huge if, they control exactly 0.00% of Venezuela right now), this is will crash the Albertan economy into the earth's core. And Albertans will, somehow, blame the Liberals.
Kichae@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 236d
No wonder PP's celebrating, then. The CPC hasn't considered anything outside of Alberta and Saskatchewan to be "Canada" since they molted their Reform Party carapace.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 236d
Yup. The US needs heavy crude, that comes from Canada or Venezuela. Guess the US won’t need Canadian oil anymore.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 236d
It wouldn't surprise me if he used the new-found Venezuelan oil to try and shut Canada down.
2026 is looking to be a nasty fucking year.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 236d
Luckily, Alberta is only 15% of our GDP.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 236d
Yeah. :/
I just posted an article from Barron's that says that's pretty much what will happen.
Late-Boomer-57@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 236d
Yeah, I saw your post. Too bad barrons is paywalled. I can't refute nor support your statement.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 236d
Sorry about that.
Barrons seems to have moved the article but MSN's scraper picked it up.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-oil-sector-s-biggest-winners-and-losers-from-venezuela-regime-change/ar-AA1TvD1p
MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 236d
I haven't tried the Barron's article in question but this little site has gotten around every other news paywall at which I've thrown it:
https://archive.is/
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 235d
Nobody is making any money from Venezuelan oil any time soon, their oil infrastructure is in shambles and it'll take 100 billion investment and 10 years to get it going. Investors balk at investing somewhere where their investment gets blown up on a daily basis, and their employees are murdered or kidnapped frequently.
RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca · 43 pts · 236d
I wonder if he even considered a more carefully worded message that didn't condone open violations of international law. Surely there was a way to say this that was less ball-suckingly sycophantic and maybe even, god forbid, a little bit respectful of the people in Canada who are able to see the danger that Trump poses.
shittydwarf@piefed.social · 41 pts · 236d
Shut the fuck up pp you little fascist bitch
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 41 pts · 237d
Fuck that little fascist.
Glide@lemmy.ca · 40 pts · 236d
Jesus fucking christ. If you ever need evidence to explain why Poilievre lost the election to one of the weakest Liberal runs Canada has seen in modern history, here it is. Tone deaf isn't enough to describe it. Clueless feels too weak. He's completely disassociated from the Canadian perspective.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 235d
Not to all Canadians, however. Unfortunately I know a few.
Threeskittiesinatrenchcoat@lemmy.ca · 38 pts · 236d
As an extension of the GOP, the CPC generally mirrors GOP propaganda in most things.
It's not a coincidence, PP isn't just acting like Trump, he answers to him.
jaselle@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 236d
Down with socialism??? Wtf is the problem with socialism
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 236d
A century of red scare propaganda.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 236d
Conservatives are afraid of socialism because they lack critical thinking skills and believe it when people say the nazis were genuine socialists. Socialism = nazis for many conservatives. Racism, genocide, and state sanctioned violence is not nazi like behavior in the eyes of many conservatives.
dom@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 236d
Tldr: conservatives are fucking dumb.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 236d
Working hard to win that leadership election. I hope it backfires.
JustADrone@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 236d
Hey siri, define “quisling”
snoons@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 236d
quisling
/kwĭz′lĭng/noun
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 236d
That's the Norwegian word for "Poilievre".
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 236d
He doesn't know what socialism is.
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 235d
He knows his brain dead audience though. They hate socialism, communism, liberals, and it doesn't matter that they don't know what any of those words mean.
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 235d
No, I’m confident in saying that Pierre doesn’t either. The people who write his tweets and speeches might, but Pierre is a fucking idiot.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 235d
Sure he does, it’s a buzz word that riles his dummies!
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 236d
Fuck off lil PP.
With all the damage Cons are doing, I wonder when people will wake up to the fact that this "socialism" the Cons keep attacking is actually the good guys.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 236d
Always has been.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 236d
And this guy was almost elected prime minister
AzuranAurora@piefed.ca · 28 pts · 236d
Fuck off from our country and never come back, you fascist piece of shit.
Warehouse@piefed.ca · 27 pts · 236d
"Well, someone needs to run Vichy Canada!"
-Pierre, probably.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 236d
Fascist Pig.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 236d
I take it PP's forgotten he was born under our social democracy.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 236d
Becauses he believes he was born at the top of it.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 236d
What a piece of shit.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 236d
He’s in the running for “Biggest Turd Canada has ever produced.”
snoons@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 236d
How shiny can you make a boots by licking them? PP is finding out!
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 236d
He's aiming a little higher, I think.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 236d
He is such a loser loudmouth
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 236d
Looking on from the outside, Canadian citizens may be screwed either way the wind blows. Saying something as tone-deaf as this is going to convince people to keep strategically voting against him, so either he wins and sells out the country, or he loses and yall end up in the same two-party system that is easily captured by corporations and billionaires.
Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 236d
It's already captured.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 236d
Imperialist bootlicker.
tomiant@piefed.social · 15 pts · 236d
Fascists of the world unite!
No, really, fascists worldwide are uniting.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 236d
Ok if I didn't like him already, this is really the final nail in the coffin.
RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 235d
Christ Almighty this guy can't do anything without trying to hurt other people, divide the country, or advocate for its destruction.
His whole life has been government funded. Hey Pierre, not everyone gets multiple hundreds of thousands a year in a golden pension, most of us rely on CPP as an important component of retirement. Socialized medicine and other programs make our country strong.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 236d
Fuck PP right in his PP