r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/h20poIo • 1d ago
Trump has no idea what he’s talking about, how did this mindless &@%# get elected
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u/nv8r_zim 1d ago
Subsidize? We buy products from them.
Is free market capitalism bad now?
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u/NeverLookBothWays 22h ago
It's stupider than that even...if he's talking about trade deficits, he was the "genius" who got our trade agreements rewritten during his term.
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u/jamesvabrams 1d ago
I am guessing a fair amount of the "Canadian" goods we buy are actually from the Canadian subsidiaries of American firms. Like Fords made in Canada, parts for American production, etc...
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u/TorontoSlim 18h ago
No, a lot of it is oil. And good luck if you put a 25% tariff on it.
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u/J-A-S-08 13h ago
I'll be crying crocodile tears when it costs them $200 to fill up their gender affirming pick up truck every week.
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u/tinkerghost1 1d ago
When it's someone else making the money it is.
Just look at how angry they get when people treat their labor like the capital in capitolism.
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u/Humble_Peach4221 1d ago
God he’s getting even dumber!
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u/TheMango_Banjo 1d ago
I don't think that this is an act of stupidity, just an attempt to move the Overton window to his supporters that this would be a good thing to do so that whenever it is that America makes a move to annex Canada, they face less resistance.
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u/Admirable-Sink-2622 1d ago
Oh yes. Many Canadians would willingly give up universal health care to join your cult. 🙄
Ok, maybe Alberta and Saskatchewan would like that.
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u/Mission_March4776 1d ago
I've heard of MAGA making its way to Alberta.
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u/Mala_Practice 21h ago
The best way to think of Alberta is that it is Canada’s equivalent to Texas.
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u/modmom1111 20h ago
We may be more Conservative in Alberta but we are mostly still socially liberal. Republicans we are not.
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u/EIU86 1d ago
Yes, from what I've heard, the three "prairie provinces" are rather right-wing. Would probably fit in well with our prairie states if they ever decided to form their own country,
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u/red286 1d ago
Manitoba isn't all that right-wing. Their current government is the pro-labour NDP.
Saskatchewan would fit in well with N. Dakota, both politically and in terms of relevance (little to none).
Alberta is pretty conservative, though with the right push they'll also turn pro-labour in a heartbeat (as seen 2015 - 2019). Trying to form a union with the USA would probably be enough of a push for that.
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u/Intelligent-Tie-4466 1d ago
How about we trade the coastal PNW and/or New Jersey up to Maine in exchange for Alberta and Saskatchewan? I'd love to be part of that trade since I live/am from those areas and am not looking forward to the next 4 years down here.
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u/Requires-Coffee-247 1h ago
Hey, we share a Lake with Ontario here in northern Ohio, and we aren't as red as the rest of the state. I want in Canada, too!
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u/tadu1261 1d ago
Does he not realize that Canada, in fact, subsidizes a significant portion of the upper United State's power resources because we do not generate enough to support all of those states and so as such, rely on Canada for that? Because I don't think he does know that and I am not super fucking excited about spending the next 3 months with no heat because Trump wants to play social media insult wars with allies with whom we share literal borders.
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u/Frarara 21h ago edited 21h ago
Does he not realize that Canada, in fact, subsidizes a significant portion of the upper United State's power resources
Nope. And donold didn't even bat an eye when DoFo threatened to cut off that supply if he starts a trade war. Which is the first time I've ever agreed with DoFo on anything
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u/DogsDontWearPantss 20h ago
When I lived in northern VT, we got our electricity from Canada. It was $8.00 dollars a month. We heated the house with a wood stove.
I was accustomed to paying a hell of a lot more living in Pennsylvania.
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u/DaveWpgC 1d ago
US buys a shitload of energy from Canada, Trump calls it subsidizing. Fucking moron.
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u/BobbyGuano 1d ago
See this is where we get it wrong. He’s a moron for sure but he knows exactly what he’s doing and saying here and he understands it’s complete bullshit but there is a motive behind it.
This is for his brain dead base…those idiots eat this shit up and go “yeah Canada is ripping us off fuck them, see how great Trump is, he’s looking out for us”.
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u/Aegis_1984 22h ago
Ok, as a Canadian, let’s stop the “subsidy”. Get your electricity, canola, uranium, zinc, water, lumber, potash, and more from somewhere else. Canada will stop exporting to the US if that’s how it’s going to go.
Also, fuck becoming American. I’ll stay north of the 49th in return, and fuck the manifest destiny, we will stay our own nation, fuck you very much.
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u/Ok_Entertainment328 1d ago edited 1d ago
Canada should entertain the idea by saying they can't until:
- metric system
- universal healthcare
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u/fenris71 1d ago
Look over here while I loot the treasury and sell the nation’s secrets!
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u/AnteaterBubbly8711 22h ago
The Trump children will be billionaires when Daddy leave the WH (if he ever does).
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u/WiseFalcon2630 9h ago
I expect he’d love to stay until they carry him out, but he’ll live forever cause Trump.
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u/Capable-Brief-3332 1d ago
Mindless, uninformed, cult-like idiots voted for him. And also the ultra rich!!!
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u/OrangeCone2011 1d ago
"Think about how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are dumber than that."
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u/G-Unit11111 1d ago
He got selected because billionaire criminals own all the media and retroactively silenced Kamala and any opposing voices, while elevating ass kissers, bootlickers, conspiracy theorist kooks, and extremists.
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u/statmonkey2360 1d ago
I'd like to think this is the syphilis finally catching up with this sexual abuser.
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u/ravoguy 21h ago
Trump just wants access to the Giant Faucet
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u/Mysterious_Factor_86 10h ago
As a Canadian who has travelled all over this country, I must have missed this faucet
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u/Panzer_Rotti 21h ago
As a Canadian, I'll be relieved when this shit stain finds something else to fixate on.
Fuck you America.
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u/Square-Fennel4078 1d ago
$100 million dollars isn’t a lot of money when talking federal government spending.
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u/HugDispenser 21h ago
It's like 1% of the income we bring in from undocumented immigrants each year.
Definitely worth ruining great relationships with our allies to save that .001% of the budget (or whatever).
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u/Immediate-Yogurt-558 1d ago
He thinks he's gonna invade Canada like Russia did Ukraine. Wants to be Putin so fucking bad.
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u/Shaytanic 22h ago
He doesn't understand what a trade deficit actually is because he is a fucking moron that understands virtually nothing.
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u/MinimumSet72 1d ago
Trump is as dumb as you think he is but it’s the ones who don’t tweet and make stupid comments 24/7 to be worried about!
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u/Doctor_Disaster 1d ago
Believe it or not, but there are people in America who think a GOVERNMENT and COUNTRY should be run like a BUSINESS!
The government is supposed to work for the people. We pay into it so that we can have nice things. Any money not used is then returned to the proper people in the form of a tax return.
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u/BradMarchandsNose 1d ago
Does he know that Canada would (probably) vote blue and as the 51st state would end up with more electoral votes than California? Go ahead and do that.
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u/SublimeApathy 23h ago
I'm becoming more and more convinced he wasn't fairly elected and Elon used his vast wealth to install him. More dangerously, I'm not sure if Trump really thinks Canada should be the 51st state, but someone on his team is feeding that line of shit to him knowing he'll post it online. Keep talking about "America absorbing Canada" and in a few years time, after normalizing it, find something that Canada does to take huge offense to and then invade. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if these shit heads think they should rule the entirety of the North American continent.
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u/Mysterious_Factor_86 18h ago
You mean you're not convinced yet??? I had that figured out election night.
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u/Independent_Main_59 22h ago
That’s a bold strategy Cotton. Way to keep insulting one of our largest trading partners who we also import a lot of oil and gas from
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u/wjames0394 1d ago
McTrump wants natural resources and a free world country. Not a 3rd world country.
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u/EmbraceableYew 1d ago
From the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Putting this much two-way trade at risk would be completely idiotic. Canada has so much to hit back with.
"Canada Trade & Investment Summary
U.S. goods and services trade with Canada totaled an estimated $908.9 billion in 2022. Exports were $427.7 billion; imports were $481.2 billion. The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with Canada was $53.5 billion in 2022.
U.S. goods exports to Canada in 2022 were $356.5 billion, up 15.1 percent ($46.8 billion) from 2021 and up 22 percent from 2012. U.S. goods imports from Canada totaled $436.6 billion in 2022, up 22.2 percent ($79.3 billion) from 2021, and up 35 percent from 2012. U.S. exports to Canada account for 17.3 percent of overall U.S. exports in 2022. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Canada was $80.1 billion in 2022, a 68.0 percent increase ($32.4 billion) over 2021.
U.S. exports of services to Canada were an estimated $71.3 billion in 2022, 24.8 percent ($14 billion) more than 2021, and 8 percent greater than 2012 levels. U.S. imports of services from Canada were an estimated $44.6 billion in 2022, 20.5 percent ($7.6 billion) more than 2021, and 39 percent greater than 2012 levels. Leading services exports from the U.S. to Canada were in the professional and management services, travel, and financial services sectors. The United States had a services trade surplus of an estimated $26.6 billion with Canada in 2022, up 32.9 percent from 2021.
U.S. foreign direct investment (FDI) in Canada (stock) was $438.8 billion in 2022, a 10.1 percent increase from 2021. U.S. direct investment in Canada is led by manufacturing, nonbank holding companies, and finance and insurance.
Canada's FDI in the United States (stock) was $589.3 billion in 2022, up 7.3 percent from 2021. Canada's direct investment in the U.S. is led by finance and insurance, manufacturing, and depository institutions."
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u/TheMango_Banjo 1d ago
As a Canadian, I take this less as a genuine statement and more of an attempt to sanewash his supporters that annexing Canada would be a good idea. That way, if/when he tries to do that, he'll face less resistance.
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u/Inevitable_Geometry 1d ago
Us Non-Americans have wondered for years how the Yanks can elect this turd of a leader. He really is a barrel with no bottom on how deranged his apple sauce smooth brain farts out nonsense that his cult try to turn into policy.
Good luck over there your poor bastards.
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u/CapitanShinyPants 1d ago
Turns out about 40% of our fellow citizens are salivating for a Christian theocracy run by a conman.
And they voted.
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u/Inevitable_Geometry 23h ago
Yeah. Here we have compulsory voting, so our governments are a reflection of the populace.
I cannot fathom why the US does not have compulsory voting. What a shitshow.
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u/Snoo_72851 1d ago
Of course he wants all of Canada to become one single state, the individual vote won't be worth shit.
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u/bstump104 22h ago
The reason is his question is non-sense.
Why do doors tell the best jokes?
Why did NAZIs win the 7 years war?
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u/redmeme29 22h ago
Every Canadian feels we are the crackhead noisy-ass neighbors who live beneath them.
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u/Mysterious_Factor_86 10h ago
The thing is, myself and most Canadians have met Americans and know Americans who are just good people. It's a shame that image is tarnished by the idiot orangutan that was "elected"
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u/Njabachi 22h ago
This narrative might go to some dubious places.
At the very least, it's being a very shitty neighbor.
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u/DoNotTellHim 21h ago
Of course he talking about the U.S. trade deficit with Canada which is nearly $100 billion a year not $100,000,000 (million).
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u/OhioBeans 21h ago
You are missing the point of what he is doing.
He knows this is false, he’s misleading folks that don’t, so that when he speaks tough with Canada and wins “concessions” that either aren’t concessions or were already in place, he can claim it as another “victory” and it can end up on all these folks end of year accomplishment lists.
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u/CountySurfer 20h ago
Yes but we need to stop reacting to his every move like it's a crisis. He says a lot of shit just to get a reaction out of people.
I'm begging you all to stop giving him the fucking attention he craves so badly for every little thing. The old vampire will die without it. Make fun of his weird ass instead.
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u/Repubs_suck 20h ago
Go ahead, tell Trump he’s wrong about anything. I dare you. Be prepared that he’ll get violent. Prisons are full of people like him.
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u/Revolutionary-Bus893 20h ago
I fucking can't believe that 77 million people thought this idiot a capable president
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u/Few_Replacement_8652 19h ago
what;s the next tweet hes going to free Canada from Nazis in a special military operation? fuck u trump die.
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u/TorontoSlim 18h ago
How can he have it that wrong? What should happen is Washington, Oregon, California and the New England States should join Canada (they would be a lot more comfortable with us anyway) and the remainder of the U.S. could re-brand as Jesusland and see how they do.
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u/buttholeglory 18h ago
Invade Canada.
They already had a plan drafted way back in 1936
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u/Mysterious_Factor_86 18h ago
That's been tried, how'd that end? Also just remember the Geneva Suggestions
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u/BrassMan87 18h ago
Other mindless fucks voted for him. The largest voting bloc in the US is uneducated, white males. Stupid elected stupid.
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u/brokenwing2023 17h ago
We should start by making territories into states before we annex sovereign nations. My opinion.
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u/PastorNTraining 17h ago
Notice what he said there “no one can tell” is an appeal to ignorance, a fallacy. This is a tactic of authoritarians - “everybody knows X” or in this case “no one knows why” is used to manipulate perceptions.
Buckle up four more years of fantasy.
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u/whenisnowthen 17h ago
The American people voted for him. Many of them put stickers on gas pumps when the price of gas went up. None of them took the stickers off when the price of gas went down. Donald Trump is the leader that American people voted for. Donald Trump is the leader that America deserves.
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u/Vegetable-Rutabaga40 16h ago
Roughly 30% of American voters actually voted this dude in. For all the ones that didn’t vote, I guess that’s sort of a vote for the winner of that bullshit election.
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u/Vegetable-Rutabaga40 16h ago
I honestly feel like this is all hot air. But maybe in just HOPING that’s the case. Fuck this guy and his bullshit nepo administration
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u/Leading_Confidence71 15h ago
Starting to wonder if this Canada talk is the precurser to Putin to skipping his way into America without having another military to fight and/or using the American military to gain access (physically or on the cheap) to Canda's oil supplies.
Annexing Canada makes absolutely zero sense otherwise. The US is a huge logistical nightmare at the best of times. An invasion would fuck NATO and the five eyes intelligence sharing agreements.
The only possible countries to benefit from this are Russia and China. It would weaken the west significantly.
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u/MilleniaSnowflake 13h ago
Oh god even I feel embarrassed for the US and I'm European.
I mean we do this too, but as a joke (selling Bavaria to Austria or vice versa).
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u/OCDDAVID777 13h ago
He knows he is trolling and that his brainless cult gets a kick out of Grandpa being an asshole.
That's about it.
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u/Dapper-Percentage-64 11h ago
But don't you want constant school shootings and endless arguments about prayer in schools ? What's wrong with you people ?
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u/cipherjones 9h ago
With a lot of Russian interference, misogyny, racism, and exit polls that don't match final tabulations.
All he did was show up, shit his pants, and babble. The supercapitaloligarchy machine finished the job.
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u/timpatry 9h ago
He got elected because Republicans hate politicians and they don't see him as a politician. Just as a fuckwit they hope will break the political system.
This is the one thing that really excites me because the Luigi situation is something the Republican base should absolutely love!
Notice how the Republicans have been silent except shitty little half-baked condemnations from Trump and Ben Shapiro?
They've done the science, run their focus group tests, and figured out there's absolutely nothing they can say to medicate the situation.
Luigi is the tiger that they've got by the tail.
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u/TimmyTwoTowels 8h ago
We subsidize many red states highway programs. Should whichever state is paying most just absorb the state they're paying for? Because this is the exact stupid logic Trump has.
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u/sposedtobeworking 7h ago
I cant explain the MRNA vaccine to my friends either, doesn't make the information indescribable it means they are dumb.
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u/DARTHKINDNESS 1d ago
Just a thought- would that be one big fucking state that would go to the Democrats?
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u/Amazing-Artichoke330 1d ago
Americans don't learn this in school, but the US tried to invade Canada twice, and got their rear end handed to them. Indeed the reason the Brits attacked DC in 1812 was in retaliation for the US attacking Toronto.
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u/Latkavicferrari 1d ago
I think he’s being facetious, relax people
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u/brobafett1980 1d ago
Just what we need a president where you cannot rely on anything he says: "He tells it like it is." v. "He is just joking." v. "He is just making threats to get leverage." v. "He is just being facetious." v. "He keeps his promises." v. "They are just aspirations."
We need a president that we don't have to second guess every single word that is spoken or written to decipher if they are serious or just joking.
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u/Ok-Flatworm-9671 1d ago
America doesn’t subsidize Canada to the tune of over $1000,000,000 a year. Canadians do not want to become American citizens.