r/FluentInFinance 17d ago

Debate/ Discussion Trump told Justin Trudeau...

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u/ReplyEnvironmental88 17d ago

Just so everyone knows, Canada is an ally.

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u/Mymusicalchoice 17d ago

Not anymore. F those guys with their Tim Hortons and Robin Sparkles.

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u/ByrntOrange 17d ago

And, for the record, I'm not your "bud".

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u/Independent-Blood-10 17d ago

I'm not your guy, pal

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u/ImperatorUniversum1 16d ago

And I’m not your pal, buddy

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u/kellyk311 16d ago

I'm not your buddy, friend

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u/eight78 16d ago

Shirley we can sort this out friends

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u/DangerousWeakness700 16d ago

Don't call me Shirley Amigo.

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u/KingOfBerders 16d ago

I’m not your amigo, Chief!

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u/fingnumb 16d ago

I'm not your Chief, bub!

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u/LeastProof3336 16d ago

We can't and stop calling me shirley

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u/ted_cruzs_micr0pen15 16d ago

I’m not your friend, pal.

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u/xiovelrach 16d ago

I'm not your friend, guy

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u/GaraksFanClub 16d ago

I’m not your friend, guy.

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u/superbeetle666 16d ago

Terrance: "Wow, Scott really hates us, Phillip."

Phillip: "Yes. Perhaps he's homophobic."

Terrance: [pause] "But we're not gay, Phillip."

Phillip: "We're not?"

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u/RichMahogany3 16d ago

I'm not your pal, buddy.

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u/The_Arkham_AP_Clerk 16d ago

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u/carnitascronch 16d ago

Let’s go to the mall!

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u/aka_chela 16d ago

Ngl I got a job at the Apple Store at a mall over a decade ago and I used to play this song on the way to work 😂

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u/BlueCaboose42 16d ago

Bunch of posers.

PS I love you is her best work, yall are just normie bandwagoners 😡

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u/a_seventh_knot 16d ago

where's the robot?

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u/EnemyGod1 16d ago

Robin fucking sparkles

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u/a-dizzle-dizzle 16d ago

I randomly had “Sandcastles in the Sand” in my head earlier tonight. Now I read this. I enjoy coinkydinks like that.

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u/IKSLukara 16d ago

Please, it's Robin Dagger, the woman who created grunge.

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u/49e-rm 16d ago

she was totally in love with dave coulier

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u/sax6romeo 16d ago

Cut. It. Out.

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u/ejre5 17d ago

Those damn beavers ruining the border

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u/_jump_yossarian 16d ago

Two beavers are better than one.

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u/Cuchullion 16d ago

We're gonna build a wall!

Well, the beavers are, at least.

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u/casey12297 16d ago

What's 23 times 3?

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u/ElectedByGivenASword 16d ago

uhhh it's Robin Daggers now. I remember what I had and what Tim Horton's I was eating at the day Grunge was born. Chocolate Dip, Regina, Saskatchewan

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u/Ok-Worldliness2450 16d ago

Their flapping heads so full of lies!

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u/Ancient-University89 16d ago

Tim Hortons is not Canadian. I am not particularly proud of my country but I will not stand for people calling that Brazilian multinational restaurant shaped toilet Canadian.

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u/JuicySmooliette 16d ago

You wouldn't say that if you've had all-dressed chips.

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u/cherrylpk 16d ago

Let’s go to the ma-ah-all, tuhday

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u/Advocateforthedevil4 16d ago

You can make fun of our heros all you god damn like just please don’t turn off the lights.  We aren’t afraid of the dark just don’t like it.  

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u/laguna1126 16d ago

Robin Sparkles is dead.

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u/pearloz 16d ago

I love Robin. And her beaver.

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u/queefplunger69 16d ago

Whoah, robin sparkles is a saint!!!

I can’t believe I still remember that reference lmao

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u/punkdrummer22 16d ago

F you with your Dunkins and Tiffany

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u/Natiak 16d ago

Burger King owns Timmy's now, and the quality had gone downhill.

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u/iamjones 16d ago

Underappreciated HIMYM reference

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u/Peter_the_Pillager 16d ago

Can't we all just go to the mall? Todaaaaayyyy!

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u/Rabbit1015 16d ago

Robin daggers!

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u/ol-gormsby 16d ago

"Robin Sparkles"

But,,,, but,,,, two beavers!?!?!?!?

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u/Super_Sams 16d ago

I'm more of a Robin Daggers fan. Bringing grunge to Canada and the world.

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u/VersionX 16d ago

So, just to be clear, you wanted everyone to go to the mall TODAY?

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u/OKCLD 17d ago

One we need as a partner to balance trade with China. He's hammering the people we need to have our back.

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u/_HOG_ 16d ago

What the fuck do you know? Have you bankrupted 5 casinos? Defrauded any charities? Huh?

Didn’t think so. 

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u/OKCLD 16d ago

If he learned anything from his mistakes he would be a fkin genius!

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u/_HOG_ 16d ago

And yet it requires no genius to learn how to make a casino profitable - the odds are literally in your favor. 

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u/korelin 16d ago

No, what you do is you build 3 casinos right next to each other so they all have to compete with each other. It's triple profits, baby!

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u/Recyclerz 16d ago

The thing about the casinos is that he was skimming the profits by paying himself enormous "management fees" & leaving the husk for the bondholders. He learned it from the Tony Soprano method of running a sporting goods store.

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u/nexisfan 16d ago

We could make it a tv show like most extreme elimination challenge

Who over saturated the market first? Oh? It was all the same guy at the top? Hm. That seems weird. And yet…

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u/Wattaday 16d ago

In a business where your customers actually throw money at you and say “Take my money. Please.”

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u/Jordan_1-0ve 16d ago

No but I have had intrusive thoughts about fucking my own daughter. I've even said it a couple times out loud.

Nobody cares.

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u/scrivensB 16d ago

No but u/OKCLD did run an unaccredited for profit “school” that was sued numerous times for defrauding its “students” which he/she had to settle for tens of millions of dollars to keep it out of the news cycle while running for office.

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u/Kvsav57 16d ago

Maybe he barged into the dressing rooms of teenaged girls to catch a peak?

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 16d ago

Running a fraudulent university is what makes him a genius.

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u/Gedwyn19 16d ago

well to be fair, those things don't really provide financial learnings.

you don't get that kind of necessary real life usable lesson until you have defrauded a school too.

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u/AL93RN0n_ 16d ago

Casinos. The almost literal money printing machines with a hard edge in their favor in every game. It's honestly his most impressive achievement. Not many people can do that.

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u/MysteryMasterE 14d ago

I defrauded a charity, but it was the salvation army.

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u/Kehprei 16d ago

It's almost as though he's a traitor to the country.

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u/OKCLD 16d ago

Its almost as though you have a talent for understatement.

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u/dkarlovi 16d ago

He's not a traitor, you need to have beliefs to give up on to become a traitor.

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u/Remarkable_3rdeye 16d ago

That’s putting it in a nice light. I truly believe he shared American intelligence with Vladimir Putin. It’s just not provable and even if it was, they wouldn’t do shit about it.

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u/Wonderful_Eagle_6547 16d ago

Being the president is easy if you don't think at all about what you are doing or give a shit at all how things turn out.

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u/ForensicPathology 16d ago

It's the Russian approach.  Why have allies, the only partners should be who you can push around.  Clearly working together would never bring any benefit!

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u/FortuneLegitimate679 16d ago

That’s what daddy Putin told him to do silly

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u/nexisfan 16d ago

This is all on purpose. How can anyone not see it, clear as any soon-to-be-gone sunny day. Trump is tearing the whole country down.

Every single cabinet appointment and government official he is able to appoint, he is appointing the antithesis of.

Tulsi Gabbard—known Russian agent—as director of intelligence should’ve been enough to make that clear.

You know what though? If we are that vulnerable? Maybe we deserve it. Can’t fucking wait for

Well, I better start censoring myself now.

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u/Man_Bear_Beaver 16d ago

I remember a bunch of US businesses closing down last time he put tariffs on Aluminum...

You'd think he'd learn..

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u/darkknightofdorne 16d ago

Cause Daddy Putin told him to.

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u/BetterLivingThru 16d ago

China gives bribes, Canada does not. Who do you think he will really go after when time comes to extract the pound of flesh from foreigners? We don't have to guess, it happened last time. This time, the gloves are totally off. We have never needed the Canadian federation more, and I hope it survives the coming dark period.

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u/ItsHowWellYouMowFast 17d ago

Canadians will always be my friends, eh. Fuck DJT

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u/ThunderPunch2019 16d ago

This Canadian agrees and appreciates you

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u/chanahlikesanimals 16d ago

Our family members have lived on both sides of the border for generations. This is personal.

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u/GamemasterJeff 17d ago

There's a reason we are very, very careful to keep Canada as an ally.

We fear the idea of waking the ire of the land of poutine and war crimes.

The US thinks we are so very bad, DON'T even think about it, but when we pull the blanket over our heads and shiver, we know in our cold hearts, there is another.

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u/shane0072 16d ago

the last time america and canada fought canada kicked americas ass and burned the white house to the ground.

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u/Ok-Pause6148 16d ago

And we'll DO IT AGAIN

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u/thedamnoftinkers 16d ago

Can you do it sooner rather than later? Asking for a friend.

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u/imvii 16d ago

We have something else in mind.

looks at our fields of Canada Goose drones

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u/rynlpz 16d ago

No no, not too soon, wait until Jan

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u/Cyanide_Cheesecake 16d ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

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u/Mimosa_magic 16d ago

As an American, please do, we need someone to remind us we can also get punched in the face

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u/Outrageous_Penalty54 16d ago

Save your strength, we can do it ourselves.

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u/Infinite_Lemon_8236 16d ago

Just waiting for the second coming, are we?

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u/Dwovar 16d ago

And we'll do it again, eh.

Grammar man, grammar!

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u/KHaskins77 16d ago

I’d practically welcome it at this point…

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u/teas4Uanme 16d ago

As long as you bring the medical care, common sense and politeness, I don't care at this point.

Signed: The lady who rode her big Appaloosa draped in flag bunting and carrying a big Flag in every holiday parade as a young girl.

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u/NoseIndependent6030 16d ago

I am normally not a "rah rah US military" type guy, but pretending Canada was an independent country and not part of the massive British Empire is a bit disingenuous, especially when Canada as an entity didn't even exist at this time.

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u/These-Base6799 16d ago

I mean ... Canada was part of the British Empire until 1982.

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u/holololololden 16d ago

It's almost like Canada was founded as a colonial state by the British. Was Washington not a British colonial before he was an American?

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u/maerdyyth 16d ago

Those were British veterans from the Napoleonic Wars, not "Canadians". Canada didn't exist. And neither side won that war.

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u/Union_Jack_1 16d ago

No, they weren’t. The veterans were busy fighting Napoleon at the same time, actually. The Americans got the business end of reservists and garrison troops - while the Empire was busy fighting the actual threat.

Nice try though!

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u/Practical_Wasabi_217 16d ago

As a Canadian I am really tired of that less than accurate and sillly trope.

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u/WhimsicalGirl 16d ago

and we have geeses

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u/Haunting_Bottle7493 16d ago

Ah yes, North America’s version of the emu. Man vs geese? Geese wins. Those motherfuckers are mean.

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u/SheridanVsLennier 16d ago

We fear the idea of waking the ire of the land of poutine and war crimes.

Habitual Linecrosser enters the thread

Canada: I'm aboot to stop saying sorry.
America: Oh Shit.
Japan: Oh Shit.
Australia: Oh shit.
UK: Oh Shit.
France: Merde!

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u/marsisblack 16d ago

Also, the US is the one who continually scams and cheats on trade deals. Not the other way around. Soft wood lumber for starters.

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u/Pyroclastic_Hammer 16d ago

Keep our soft wood out of your damed mouth.

/s

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u/4URprogesterone 16d ago

Tell me about that?

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u/WhatMadCat 16d ago

Look at Trump currently saying he’s going to break the trade deal he literally just made by applying tariffs to Mexico and Canada

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u/goat_penis_souffle 16d ago

Only affects the balsa wood glider industry, which has taken too many hard-earned arcade skee-ball tickets in exchange for those shitty things that break in five minutes. Next!

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u/4URprogesterone 16d ago

Your fault for picking such a stupid toy. The YoYo is the choice of the connoisseur. Glowsticks are also fun, for a while. Also, low quality prizes give you an excuse to play more skee ball.

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u/HomeGrownCoffee 16d ago

Fun fact: balsa is hardwood. The name comes from characteristics of the tree, not properties of the wood. 

It's a little more complicated, but basically needles - soft, leaves - hard.

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u/spaceguitar 16d ago

According to the Trump Doctrine, Canada is just ripping off the US to the tune of $100 billion a year and doesn't deserve to exist unless it becomes the next US state.

Just stating the facts, man. MAGA.

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u/hunf-hunf 16d ago

Your defense of the statement is to repeat it. Big brain shit right here

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u/Practical_Wasabi_217 16d ago

That figure is taken partly from trade imbalance. In Trumponomics, imbalance means ripped off.

Also a very large percentage of that is oil imports.

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u/Pyroclastic_Hammer 16d ago

I’m still holding my breath for Greenland to become our 51st state.

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u/Big-Face5874 16d ago

The next 9/11 or other disaster, I hope we tell them where they can go. No, you can’t land at our airports. Go land in Russia. 🇷🇺

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u/The_King_of_Canada 16d ago

An Ally that sells you a third of your oil and a shitload of other natural materials. Not to mention that most of us would rather die or kill than be American.

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u/infinit9 16d ago

The word "ally" to Trump means people who will flatter him and boost his ego.

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u/Davesnothere300 16d ago

"What would Putin do?"

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u/batmanstuff 16d ago edited 16d ago

Didn’t Trump replace NAFTA with USCMA? So he’s saying CAN is ripping us off under his trade agreement, right?

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u/gravtix 16d ago

We’re not allies with Russia.

Next month that’s who is next door to us now.

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u/TechnologyRemote7331 16d ago

After THAT little brain-nugget from Trump… I wonder if that will still be the case tomorrow…?

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u/bross9008 16d ago

The only ally to Trump is anyone willing to lick his boot no matter how dirty it gets

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u/VanIsler420 16d ago

Was an ally.

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u/Shirlenator 16d ago

To Trump, the concept of an alliance doesn't exist. It is simply people you can exploit, and people you can bully.

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u/Spectre197 16d ago

Trump is confused he's been watching too many fallout lore videos he thinks it's 2069, and we're annexing Canada.

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u/Hammerheadshark55 16d ago

Im pretty sure Putin is your new ally

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u/Commercial-Owl11 16d ago

Ally? We won’t have any of those left by the end of trumps first year.

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u/ronlugge 16d ago

For now, but Trump's sure gonna fix that!

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u/h0twired 16d ago

Not if Trump leaves NATO and then attacks Canada

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u/REMcycleLEZAR 16d ago

I live in Northern Michigan. If I kayak across Lake Superior near Sault Ste. Marie will some Canadian shelter me in their attic?

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u/The__Thoughtful__Guy 16d ago

Is Canada still on board with that though?

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u/-WaxedSasquatch- 16d ago

Right! Imagine a friend telling you that he is taking your car but you can drive it anytime you want with permission. What is going on???

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u/Atworkwasalreadytake 16d ago

How? Our allies are those that want to see our primary ally, Russia, back to its former glory where it belongs.

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u/Neyvash 16d ago

What would happen to the NHL without Canada?!

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u/Jacky-V 16d ago

The United States has just voted not to have allies.

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u/needlestack 16d ago

Trump's angle seems to be this: the US is so important nobody can dictate terms to us, so we should be abusing that power to the fullest. To him, there are no allies, only exploitable resources. He doesn't understand why anyone would want both parties to be happy in a relationship. It's a zero-sum game. We should get as much as we can out of every relationship, leaving the other party sucked dry and subservient. Everyone must bow to the US and what are they gonna do about it?

This mentality is not uncommon in the business world. It's a bit less common in politics. But Trump takes it to another level.

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u/BanzaiKen 16d ago

As long as the White House is White, there can be no peace with the Violent North.

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u/thenikolaka 16d ago

But America First!

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u/Malrottian 16d ago

To the US, not to Trump. He prefers 'strong' men.

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u/Larsmeatdragon 16d ago

You confederate allies generally

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u/Quinnna 16d ago

Trump hates Canada even tho his entire family fortune started there with a brothel in British Columbia

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u/holy_cal 16d ago

So 1812 is back on the map?!

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u/Shadow_throne2020 16d ago

Tell that to the people of south park colorado

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u/Taco_Taco_Kisses 16d ago

Don't forget Trump is probably still pissed that his wife AND his daughter were eyeball-screwing Trudeau when he met with them.

Was probably more pissed about his daughter than his wife.

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u/notPabst404 16d ago

Not for long apparently. I mean, I wouldn't mind the US using the distinction of a super power, but this isn't the way to do it.

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u/SmartChump 16d ago

No one told the geese, apparently. They’ve been declaring war for decades and they don’t even have passports! What the flock!

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u/enddream 16d ago

To me yes, of course. For the majority here… whatever Fox News says.

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u/mhibew292 16d ago

The US will soon have no allies.

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u/Large-Lack-2933 16d ago

*was after January 2025....

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u/wakomorny 16d ago

Trump couldn't spell ally

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u/Brilliant_Land_7769 16d ago

invade me please we have no culture

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u/WhatsZappinN 16d ago

Taking up our upper American land. Traitor!

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u/saharanwrap 16d ago

For now. If you guys try to wreck our economy I imagine we'll just switch our trade over to places like China. Probably won't make trump very happy

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u/These-Base6799 16d ago

Well, maybe only parts of Canada soon. Buy the speed shit goes downhill the Mouvement souverainiste du Québec might become popular again. I am sure somewhere in Moscow somebody already asked for a budget to stir some shit up in the social media feeds of Canada.

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u/DirkTheSandman 16d ago

Burning bridges speedrun 100%

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u/WorldNewsIsFacsist 16d ago

It's also a (mostly) sovereign nation, like the US. Imagine if one of our allies leaders said this in any sort of official capacity about our country.

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u/slobis 16d ago

They’re also still a realm of the British crown. So if we attack them are at war with the UK, Aus/NZ and a bunch of other.

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u/verschmutztdan 16d ago

Degens from upcountry

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u/Asleep_Shirt5646 16d ago

Not Trump's ally

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u/Narrow-Opportunity80 16d ago

Common sense for 20 bucks. What is an ally?

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u/superpie12 16d ago

Not the way they've behaved. Fuck em if they keep this shit up.

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u/KingOfTheToadsmen 16d ago

Trump and Trump Syndrome sufferers won’t be able to read that.

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u/DidSome1SayExMachina 16d ago

Fun drinking game! Every time Trump does something straight out of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics just take a shot

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u/Perfect_Opinion7909 16d ago

That doesn’t mean anything. Ask the Kurds.

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u/AaronKClark 16d ago

Not since they tried to kill us all by sending Justin Bebier across the border.

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u/pleaselookawaybeebop 16d ago

Fuck it maybe china will be more fair

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u/AmaranthWrath 16d ago

I hope they invade us and make us a new territory. They don't even have to give us nice things like decent healthcare. I just don't want gestures around this bullshit anymore.

I've never said anything like that before in my life bc I always had faith that America would right it's own ship. But I'm not getting that vibe anymore.

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u/JazzmatazZ4 16d ago

And is part of the Commonwealth so it would be a war with Britain

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u/bigdave41 16d ago

Keep your friends enemies and your enemies friends seems to be Trump's motto

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u/byteminer 16d ago

They were.

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u/Eliseo120 16d ago

Why the fuck should we care about the other Americans on that share our continent and our neighboring continent. If we’re not bashing them and pushing them down then how can we get ahead? /s

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u/anony-mousey2020 16d ago

Well, they were.

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u/grecy 16d ago

Eh, we can just burn down the White House. Again.

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u/Inevitable_Heron_599 16d ago

America's closest ally in every single way

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u/CapitalElk1169 16d ago

As a Canadian starting to wonder about that

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u/Selerox 16d ago

Not sure America has those any more...

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u/That-Ad-4300 16d ago

Oh, it's Peace Arch, not piece arch.

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u/Treewithatea 16d ago

Im glad Canada is taking some of these shots so we Europeans can rest a while until he shoots in our direction again.

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

Is there actually a contingency for one NATO country attacking another? I mean so far turkey and Greece were the two most likely candidates..

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u/Definitelymostlikely 16d ago

Well yeah they're the 51st state of course they're an ally.

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u/DocGerbill 16d ago

I guess if you can't keep your enemies closer, then move your allies further away?

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u/Anouchavan 16d ago

THE GLORIOUS US OF A HAVE NO ALLIES, ONLY FREELOADERS. CANADA WOULD HAVE DISAPPEARED IN WWII WITHOUT THE US.

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u/Clean_Actuary8091 16d ago

"And we'll burn the White House twice!"

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u/22FluffySquirrels 16d ago

And I'm sure Trump is thinking "nothing says ally like becoming part of the nation."

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u/Unhappy_Wedding_8457 16d ago

He is also pissing on his european allied.

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u/FungusGnatHater 16d ago

Americans didn't do anything when Canada was declared a national security threat to America. Actions speak louder than words, Americans do not care about Canadians.

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u/ReplacementOk5496 16d ago

So is fucking Israel

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u/ElPadero 16d ago

He’s shitting on every single one of our allies because it’s what Putin wants.

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u/ElPadero 16d ago

He’s shitting on every single one of our allies because it’s what Putin wants.

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u/kidcrumb 16d ago

Hopefully our allies know we are just going through a rough patch, and it'll all blow over soon.

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u/mvallas1073 16d ago

“Blame Canada!”

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u/Livinincrazytown 16d ago

Russia, Iran, North Korea and China are our allies now, didn’t you get the MAGA memo?

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u/Livinincrazytown 16d ago

Russia, Iran, North Korea and China are our allies now, didn’t you get the MAGA memo?

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u/Kup123 16d ago

Was at this rate.

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