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This is the first cohesive idea I have seen on how to deal with Trump. Europe has to "Escalate to de-escalate" and they have to focus on defeating Russia in Ukraine without the US. I'm not sure they have the backbone. But we're about to find out.

To be fair. That's Facebook's demographics these days.

That harms their economies. Just threaten to let European companies ignore American patents, while regulating American tech tightly and launching anti-trust investigations. The ensuing stock and bond crash that follows the next day will have Republicans themselves calling for impeachment.

I am going to guess that you don't say the same thing about American defence startups. Not everything is "ArriveCan". If you want a proper military in Canada, developing a defence industry is part of the deal.

Yeah. Cause he's starting to finally see some real life consequences: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/sell-america-trade-dollar-treasury-gold-us-trump-greenland.html

I don't think it's much beyond words. The deal was actually pretty tepid, despite the language. Tariffs were just rolled back to 2024 levels. Also, the US and Australia both have substantially more trade with China than us. And the Australians do call it a "strategic partnership". A lot of...

100% People forget that the Europeans caved and didn't even back us last year during the 51st state schtick. Starmer even evaded a question from reporters at the White House. Trump doesn't respect weakness. So now, he's going after them. If they came back and responded with a massive tariff...

It's just a stupid fight to pick. And this is a gifted off-ramp. He should take it.

Canada has 1.2M registered firearms. There's several time more that are unregistered/unlicensed/illegal. It makes Canada top 20, possibly top 10 for per capita firearms ownership in the world. Even the government snatching up some guns (even though I disagree with the program) would not...

No. But the idea that what is stopping Canadians from firing a shot is gun control policy is real stretch in a country that has millions of firearms in circulation. Not to mention that if we all suddenly wake up inside the USA, it becomes a lot easier to go buy guns at that point. And you can...

The collapse of the US economy as the global order goes with it.

Escalation ladder. They don't drop everything on day one. There should be some clear declarations and a defined ladder. But also, how can EU do anything when they have stooges like this: https://www.intellinews.com/hungary-rejects-joint-eu-stance-on-greenland-foreign-minister-says-421027/...

At this point, it's the only way to actually stop this behaviour. There's a theory I heard this morning. There's two Trumps. TACO Trump and FAFO Trump. The strong get TACO Trump (see China and Russia). The weak get FAFO Trump (Venezuela, Europe). There's no point negotiating with him. You...

This is as silly as Americans who believe they could fight the US military. But way to go. Deflect from the real threat.

In the Fall of 2008, they didn't know if bank machines would have to stop dispensing cash. Obama and McCain had to pause their campaigns to get briefed on the bailout. Obama basically got handed two wars that were going badly, the worst recession since the Great Depression and a Global...

And he couldn't wash off his tan.

So blame the guy who had to clean up the GFC and Iraq and not the guy who actually made those mistakes? How partisan can you get? Obama had his faults. Especially on foreign policy (infamous "red line"). But all of that fails in comparison to the hand he was dealt. Man, people have really...

Very debatable. I wouldn't say his first point was successful. Iraq isn't great today. But it is mostly stable. And on #2, there's no way Bin Laden could have seen Trump coming. And really that's the person doing irreparable damage.

It's a rather typical Canadian desire to compare. "We have it just as bad." No we fucking don't. And I thank god every fucking day for that.

Certainly one way to look at it. But I'd say Putin kinda won. Bad as Iraq and the GFC were, the US was kinda rebounding after 2010, but then Putin discovered what dark money and social media targeting could do. And he basically managed to manipulate the US into destroying itself. People...