Summary
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in a private meeting inadvertently broadcast via a hot mic, warned that Donald Trump is seriously considering annexing Canada to secure its critical mineral resources.
Speaking to business and labor leaders, Trudeau claimed Trump’s administration is keenly aware of Canada’s resource wealth and sees annexation as a means to control it.
The comments, cut off after staff realized they were audible, underscore growing economic and political tensions.
He also stressed the need to diversify trade, noting, “Geography means we’re always going to both benefit and be challenged by trade with the United States.”
I hope you’re right. I fear you’re not.
He couldn’t even shut down USA aid. All he needed to do was have a semi-intelligent person walk into there and see what the consequences would be for shutting it down. He’s consistently just playing checkers on a chess board and having to roll every move back.
He’s going to piss a lot more people off and make a lot more problems but he does not have the competency in himself or his team to pull off an operation like that against an actual trained country.
Don’t get me wrong, he will eventually shut a bunch of very important shit down probably inadvertently.
Maybe we’ll lose a third of the population to an illness or something on his watch.
I’m a bit more worried overall that he’s now going to permanently be in power than anything. I don’t think the US has it in them too kick him to the curb, and I’m definitely not going to count on the military backing us in a coup.
Dude it’s been all of two weeks. I wouldn’t say he’s failed at any of these things yet, only delayed in some cases.
People are so desperate to pretend this isn’t happening… Meanwhile, our country is being dismantled in front of our eyes.
Right now, he’s shooting in a bag and handing it around if that doesn’t cause massive protests in the general public to kick his ass out then he Will probably eventually find a truffle.
The country was dismantled in his last term when the Supreme Court was turned into a Nazi sock puppet.
There’s no checks and balances yet we’re not going to get any better until all those fuckers go.
But he did shut it down. The office was cordoned off, the flag and signage removed, administrative employees placed on leave and overseas employees ordered to return home. Leaving massive amounts of food and medicine to spoil on ships.
Yes, a judge has ordered a “pause” on the shutdown until a hearing takes place, but we haven’t seen them go back to work so far, since it’s Friday–we’ll see what happens Monday. Point is he’s going ahead and doing illegal things and daring someone to stop him. My concern is whether they’ll ignore court orders. Because it’s not like there’s a way to enforce them other than he chooses to comply.
Do the military pledge their loyalty to the country or to the POTUS?
There’s just one problem. Who will keep and who will break their oath? Obviously many have already broken it. If they think they’re keeping it, who will they consider to be the “domestic enemies”?
What’s super worry of who they pledge their loyalty to and who they actually keep it to when the chips are down.
I pledge allegiance to the commander-in-Chief: Good now go take all of your neighbors and family and ship them off to internment camps where we certainly won’t do genocidal things. Then go over in front of the state house and shoot all those protesters.
BTW he’s officially ordered Guantanamo to be expanded from holding a few hundred prisoners to 30,000.
I mean he’s got to have room to hold all the people that protest
He had no idea that 2 billion in farm subsidies came from it. He’s going to have to find some way to twist that to make it work.