US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra had the nerve to give a speech scolding Canadian business leaders for not defending US policies. It's not reasonable to ask businesspeople to jettison their intellect and integrity to defend the indefensible. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
I'm offended again by MAGA Hoekstra "joking" that it's not every country that gets asked to be the US's 51st state. Arrogant jerk doesn't grasp our POV, that when a POTUS and C-i-C of the world's most powerful military says he wants to annex Canada, that's not an "ask", but an unforgivable THREAT.🤬
Every time Hoekstra opens his mouth and insults us, Canadians' resolve is strengthened-- avoid travel to the US and BOYCOTT USA products! bsky.app/profile/myth...
Hoekstra can go to hell with that "term of endearment" BS. Would the US take it as a "term of endearment" if China threatened to make America a Chinese province? Trump's repeated "51st state" annexation talk violates international law and the UN Charter, and is a threat of *war* against Canada.
if that were to happen, the US would be lobbing bombs by now. It may violate international law but the world is eerily silent and that is why we are in a high state of anxiety.
So true 😤
Business-people too often discard intellect & integrity for money & power. Surprised?
While…. American big businesses are all walking around their pants at their ankles!
I’m not disagreeing with your position on Hoekstra’s ridiculous demands, but given your position on Israel, maybe you should practice what you preach.
The audacious ask is what they have to go on. tfg is bankrupt.
Nothing more repulsive than loud, ignorant arrogance. Never in the history of human kind has there been a collection of more villainous scoundrels.
That arrogance has been there for a 100 years. Now it is on full display. Americans are not welcome anywhere
I once was assistant coach to someone who had some gaps in their baseball knowledge (tho had other positive qualities). It was difficult to teach kids what you know is wrong because the huge at the top doesn’t have the knowledge. I feel a tinge of sympathy for American ambassadors….
Slime
I have no words.
Trump et al really do believe they are king of the world. Trump goal is to make all countries slave states to US, and oddly, many aren't willing to do that. The nerve to tell another country's people to promote your interests is just mindboggling.
Talk about not reading the room! MAGA is blinded by their hubris and stupidity.
It’s not reasonable and yet it’s the entire domestic platform.
Pete Hoekstra is persona non grata, and a moron.
Oh he is not scoring Brownie points up here in Canada. He loves to insult us! I vote to boot his butt out! He is not a positive Representative in any way!
We hate him!
What's the best defense for destroying needed food and other supplies for people barely living day-to-day? What's a good reason to commit genocide in Gaza?
"There are no advocates for the Canadian-American relationship"? More accurately, he might say there are no advocates for the dysfunctional, abusive relationship Trump envisions.
Pete Hoekstra is a horrible and very rude and racist man. He was ambassador in The Netherlands during Trump’s first term (he was born here) and managed to offend everyone he met. He also said Dutch men from Muslim origin created no-go zones (we don’t have them, very peaceful country). He loves Trump
He's a typical american.
. . . of the worst sort, only. I would have enough tact not to act as he has.
When did the noble “America First” policies transition to the ignoble “America Only” propaganda?
Are all guys named Pete stupid?
Not @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , he's brilliant and decent. 😊
Not reasonable? Why then has it been reasonable for the media to defend the Democrats for the last 10 years? That is the height of indefensibility. Time for you to act like a real journalist.
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I guess US diplomatic training no longer includes, Diplomacy.
Hoekstra failed to give Trump the full credit he deserves.
I seriously cannot understand why the U.S. ambassador is being permitted to flounce about our country, criticizing Canadian resistance to Fascism, instead of being unceremoniously dragged to Ottawa, and forced to answer for the crimes against humanity being carried out by his government.
He's the worst Ambassador.
Persona non grata.
Holster is out of his depth.
Damn autocorrect. Hoekstra
Every once in a while, though, it gives us a gift. What better nom de guerre for that shithead than “Peter Holster?” 😂😂
Pete, put your mouth back in its holster!
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Hoekstra is shameless idiot who, shortly before he became the US ambassador to the Netherlands, said in an interview that Dutch politicians were getting burned.
For the record, we don’t burn politicians.
Hoekstra was a disaster as an ambassador to The Netherlands in Trump's first term so why would anyone expect anything else now? He's uninformed, unfriendly and unqualified and Canadians likely figured that out immediately.
omg
Canada should kick him out of the country and tell Trump to send a new ambassador.
That MAGA guy that got fired after an interview for proclaiming himself a fascist while laughing maniacly needs a job.
You are assuming that Pete Hoekstra can identify intellect and integrity.
The Trump administration has violated trade treaties - including those signed by Trump himself - to launch unprovoked and unjustifiable economic aggression against Canada. A US ambassador is paid to do PR for that outrage, but he won't find willing volunteers to help him.
The arrogance of the ambassador cements the continuing bad and inappropriate message and positioning of the worst and most dangerous American administration in my lifetime.
Related: i took a class at a community college in Kalamazoo about 20 yrs ago, and the instructor thought Michigan looked like it should be part of Canada based on its geography
I am rooting for our Canadian neighbors. Our government is treating them horribly.
I am growing so tired of all things American. 🇨🇦
The US is the elephant in the room.
Have the Canadians expelled him yet?
The most non-partisan opinion that literally everyone I know now holds is “f**k the U.S., I’ll never go there again”
Just fyi, many of us in the US support Canada’s actions. Frankly, I view this as the older sibling (Canada) telling the (whiny) baby (the US) to grow up. Those of us whose sanity remains intact know we need to be slapped hard to get back to the real world.
Well said. Americans also need to be out in the streets protesting consistently. Fascism might collapse under the weight of its own incompetent oppression, but that can’t be the only strategy. As dismaying as it is to watch this descent into dictatorship, the shrug of much of the public is shocking
You’re right but many of us are out protesting!! The problem is we’re not getting coverage! The media is obeying in advance which is terrifying. Please keep hitting us from up north tho’. We need to have you speaking sanity to fascism. Thx, Canada.
The next step after protest is civil disobedience and general strikes.
If we could get the freight rail to lead a general strike it would be EPIC.
Videos of citizens pushing back against ICE stormtroopers gives me hope
A third of them have never voted.
Willing volunteers to help the US ambassador? Kevin O'Leary and Conrad Black come to mind.
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Isn't he the shitbag gop Michigan guy?
I know we can't expel him, much as he deserves to be expelled. My recommendation is to suspend all contact with him, disinvite him - no event or party invites, no speaking engagements, no university or conferences, no interviews on CBC - just cut him out and let him wither. Invite other people.
As a Canadian all I have to say is this: Ambassador Pete Hoekstra is welcome to (and I do offer this invitation in the most polite, Canadian, way possible) go fu%k himself.
Evidently we are supposed to submit to economic warfare and remember to say "Thank you!"
Politico likes to frame these things as if equivalent to folding laundry. They truly believe that the “responsible”, “professional” thing to do is to treat Trump and all his attempts at destruction as business as usual. Because they are led by thoughtless pieces of bland Beef Wellington.
Hoekstra puts the ASS in Ambassador.
I see what you did there…
Good one 😀👍
Why would Canadians be expected to defend American policy? Have American businesses defended Canadian policy?
Reading the PH Wiki page, his behaviour is completely predictable. He's pure Tea Party MAGA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Ho...
Pete can go fuck himself.
