Boos for the US

Trump's tariffs are an incredible unforced error nationally on our part, because we never had that level of animosity with our neighbor to the north before (I guess since the war of 1812). I don't know that Trump understands what Candian energy means for New England states in winter, or to what degree imposing these tariffs makes him the asshole, but we are going to readily see the problem in action because our good allies are going to reciprocate--because why shouldn't they? 

Trump doesn't understand water conservation in California and probably thinks BC needs to turn a spigot somewhere so I'm not going to try to parse his wrong-headed grievances. The last North American Trade agreement was the USMCA which was a Trump Administration coup! (As far as successful Trump Administration coups go!) and now he wants to say it's all been problematic? 

Canadian Bacon and Trump Ham

 

Honestly, right-wing forces have been working at Trudeau since well before Trump started on this 51st-state nonsense.  This appears to be an appeal to turn out conservative Canadians. It's only part delusional. But along with his renewed Greenland interest--and the observed meddling Elon Musk has been engaging in in Europe, that we seem to have a very disturbing case of two megalomaniac viruses swapping DNA. 

I'm still working on the big picture about this

Oh, Canada. I'm Sorry.

 

Canada fought alongside the U.S. in World War Two, the Korean War and in Afghanistan post-9/11. In Afghanistan, they did some of the hardest, frontline duty of any U.S. ally and suffered more than 150 killed in action. The antagonizing of a neighbor and longtime treaty partner… https://t.co/zKefr2LI74

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) December 17, 2024

I mean, I didn't vote for the guy, but while I tried to caution against it, somehow we still got him and he's a stupid, insulting, know-nothing brat who doesn't understand the value of our close relationship. He's a fucking obvious rude ugly American jackass, and we should really be better than this. You all have given so much. Michael J. Fox. John Candy, rest his soul. And pretty much the best bits of SCTV and all of Kids in the Hall! And letting our film crews sometimes pretend Vancouver is part of the US, which, let's face it, we wish!

Dan Ackroyd, basically an international treasure. I'm pretty sure the trend of pairing maple things with bacon things would not exist without Canada, that's for sure. The science teacher who runs the Bunsen, Beaker and Bernoulli account on Twitter. And of course, you know, our shared vision of democracy and the wars we've generally fought together. We've been through a lot like some kind of Corsican twins where one is a dissolute nationalist jagoff and the other is, you know, Canada, and frankly, "Murdoch Mysteries" is better than a lot of our shows here because we just don't "do" historical, because US Americans don't read. So, most of us only know Anne of Green Gables through your tv productions. 

I forgot where exactly I was going with this, but I support Chrystia Freeland over my imaginary Canadian boyfriend if one of the things she wants to do is make Trump eat fresh financial hell. and try to roll him because I suspect my country won't suffer--Trump's ego will. 

And he'll make a "brilliant deal" to eat it.  You stand firm for yourselves, and I don't think you'll actually be in the wrong. 

As Red Green said, "We're all in this together."