Nobody is invading you man, calm the fuck down. The worst case outcome is a catastrophic trade war where we all suffer.
Nobody is invading you man, calm the fuck down. The worst case outcome is a catastrophic trade war where we all suffer.
*holding a loaded gun to your head* dude calm down lol can't you take a joke?
that's a-historical. the authoritarian playbook almost always involves territorial expansion. consider: Hegseth is a stooge, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, generals, admirals, JAGs are all fired and replaced. who is left to tell him, 'no'?
Of course you don't care because if it does happen you aren't going to be affected, you are not going to stop it or even it seems oppose it.
Ugh. The Patronizing American.
He has threatened military action to seize their territory. This is violence. If someone threatens you with violence, take it seriously. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17922941/
"This study revealed high rates of assault and even homicide following threats to kill. The mentally disordered were over-represented among threat offenders and among those at high risk of subsequent violence; young, substance abusing, but not necessarily with prior convictions.
Being this cavalier got us to where we are
Yeah, coz you petulant little shits covering Trump have done such a bang-up job so far.
You should broaden your news sources. In the past 4 weeks lots has been said by your administration that you don’t appear to be aware of. We are preparing to disengage with you. A French view : apple.news/ABsEl4ByKTV-...
"Just a trade war teehee"
So, you are a reporter, uh?
GFY
It's the job of the professional contrarian centrist to pretend this is all fine, actually, huh.
> Semafor Deeply unsurprising.
You are basing that argument on what exactly?
This seems remarkably naive
Knee-jerk contrarianism is no way to go through life man. Sometimes the simple answer is the right one.
These arm chair experts confusing dismissiveness for actual intelligence
Drink?
Lol #remindme1year
I hope your russian paycheck bounces
Posts absolute 💩 take, gets dog piled on...
Why do you not take Trump at his word? Have you learned nothing since 2016?
There is no way you can say that
Yank client journalism
Who the FUCK are you to tell us to calm down? The worst case scenario is that we have to defend our country ‘s sovereignty against economic and possibly military action from our neighbourhood and erstwhile ally, nothing can be ruled out. You’ve also been wrong more often than right, so STFU. /1
/2 Perhaps a bunch of us Canadians will just show up at your house and break in, take your car, your partner, and empty your bank account, because we feel like it. But calm the fuck down, worst case scenario is that you have to be our gimp. You call yourself a JOURNALIST?
Please!!! Get me out of this shithole country!
Maybe you should get outside or something
I was on the shitter, perfect place to read the posts I’ve replied to. Are you bothered that I care enough about my country to speak up to those who are cavalier about the sovereignty of other nations?
I don’t know man, getting all freaked out about it on a small social media site doesn’t seem productive or useful, but you do you. Hope it was a satisfying #2 at least!
I find it useful when people respond directly to the enablers of Fascism when they post on social media, if it’s productive it’s a bonus, if not, it simply helps me to let off some steam, useful enough for me. I have more difficulty grasping the usefulness of policing other peoples’ posts.
read the room dude
I thought Trump being elected the first time was the worst case outcome?
Narrator: That wasn’t the *worst* case outcome.
The US has a Russian coup stripping it of democracy day by day. You are delusional to believe these assholes won't do Putins bidding. I'm sure you are one of the enablers that gives his behavior a pass. Either way, don't tell Canadians what the fuck we should be feeling. 🇨🇦 Stay in your lane! 🔥
Why do Americans go out of their way to be the most wilfully ignorant group of people on the planet! Fuck off !
Because America is the best country in the world. That's what they tell us when we're children and repeat it throughout our scholastic carriers. Are you saying your schools don't teach that? /s
Your sarcasm noted. Yes indoctrination begins in elementary school. American Exceptionalism. It's why the world is turning it's back on your country as it collapses
I'm glad I was raised by an intelligent immigrant, who never wanted to be here. I'm only here bc my father wouldn't allow her to take us (her children) back home when they divorced. I grew up knowing this place is a shithole. Unfortunately I'm too poor to leave.
Hopefully soon the Safe Country Agreement will be voided by Canada. Refugees arrive here with nothing.
It is the fact that during elections so many Americans ignored the needs of the most vulnerable that adds to our disgust and outrage. Sadly our conservatives are like your MAGA, and in a few months' time we will be facing the exact same threat as we go to the polls. Propaganda is prevalent here.☹️
It truly is frightening. I'm worried that trump, with all this talk and tariffs, he's trying to set up a 'win' for an ally, like Reagan with the hostages in Iran. 'If I win, America will stop this nonsense' and if they win, the nonsense stops, then America will own you. I hate all of this so much.
Trump will never take Canada theconversation.com/why-annexing...
He is setting us up by trying to crash our economy, then extort and strip us of our resources exactly as he is Ukraine with defence assistance. We hate it as you do. What is distressing is he and everyone who voted or abstained , is dragging innocents into the self inflicted disaster.
He would've won regardless. The stink about a rigged election last time made it possible, they learned how to rig it. Democrats are trying to play by the political rules while trump is not and moving the goal posts. There is only one way to stop fascism.
I agree! *It's good to remember this is an American based platform unlike my other social media space
The US lives in a false reality that they’re the best country in the world. It’s evident that Americas bubble keeps it’s citizens ignorant about the rest of the world
Your timing is uncanny, I just finished typing this reply to someone and then saw your reply bsky.app/profile/myth...
You're not wrong. It's terribly sad.
it is very sad
A catastrophic trade war is by no means the worst outcome for Canada. And portraying the US as some sort of equal victim isn't helpful either imv.
1) How would you Know this? Our government is making direct threats. You’re in no position to assert otherwise. The worst case outcome is an invasion. As a journalist, you must know all the JAGs were removed for
2) Loyalists. If you don’t know that, you need to inform yourself. If You do Know that, how could You possibly write what you did?
Considering his track record he isn to be trusted.. or did we forget what he did to zelensky not even two weeks ago.. and the dismantling of the US state and many many other things pple said he wouldn't do ..
A journalist should not be so ignorant. Canadians have been worried the last month already. #NiceRatio
Put your money where your surety is. If Canada is invaded by the US do you promise to give me everything you own?
I don't have much confidence in your predictions. bsky.app/profile/jhwe...
You lack the wisdom to change your opinion when facts don't support you. Smarten up.
Imagine seeing your president threaten to annex your closest ally and trade partner and acting like it's nbd. Absolute fucking brainrot.
Dude has spent too much time around the smell of money
Hi Jordan I don’t know anything about you, but I’m a 50 year old woman counting the guns in our house and preparing to fight. Your maniacal leader literally said he wants to crush us economically to take our resources. Don’t tell Canadians to calm the fuck down…man 😡
Leave this sort of edgy shit for Dennis Miller, Jordan. Eat a sandwich and relax.
In world where so many norms have already been broken, claiming more norms won't be broken is neither a wise prediction nor an effective way to maintain norms. So if you don't want to look like you're running interference for annexationists, you should either denounce them or keep your mouth shut.
Relax. You have the assurances of a dipshit who has been wrong about everything so far.
The threats are very real, dumbass, as today showed. How about you — instead of calming the fuck down — fuck all the way off, back to your USA dream world.
How about you go fuck yourself Jordan. The man does but respect the sovereignty of countries. I'll calm down when he's dead.
Tone deaf says what?
Just saw in your bio that you're a reporter. I guess that's one more of you that have been wrong about every single threat we've faced in the last 10 years.
And why would anyone be invading him anyhow. He’s from Poland! They have Waaaaay better neighbours than Canada.
Your president has specifically said to our prime minister that he wants to change the borders whether we like it or not. Him and his facist pigs that work for him say it every day. Fuck the USA. The worst case outcome is where the USA doesn’t ceased to exist on the planet. Fuck the U.S.S.A
USSARF
Shut the fuck up you head turning pile of shit.
if there are any armed hostilities against Canada you owe two novels of articles about how you managed to fuck this up so catastrophically
Which town or city were you born in Jordan?
Not sure, but I think their idiot is missing.
Have you ever heard of the Mexican-American War, where the United States took land from Mexico? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican... Your reassurances concerning politics are worthless. It might make more sense to focus on finance, given that you work at Yahoo Finance.
Trump literally threatens this all the time
Hey bud, where do you get your confidence from? How are you so comfortable telling ppl what to be calm about when you’re the guy who posted this? bsky.app/profile/jhwe...
Clown.
@jhweissmann.bsky.social that’s what they said about abortion, and trans folks, and gee look how the stability and institutional knowledge of the Fed Govt is being gutted by doge. But sure, we should all calm down. Fuck right off.
Wildly unprofessional. You should use an alt if you want to tell people to “calm the fuck down”
Wow what an ignorant statement. FU! Asshole
Hey Jordan, block me. but b4 you do go fuck yourself. I bet you said nobody was gonna let Musk run wild with DOGE, or Roe V Wade is the law of the land, or Nobody will confirm RFKjr etc. Your Country is siding with RUSSIA Times ain't normal so take your arrogance and shove it
Funny this reply seems to confirm your BS abilities at accepting what is really happening
Yeah, Trump is just struggling to take the loss, no way he’s going to carry on with this stolen election bullshit as a pretext to attempt a coup…
McKinley tried what Trump has said out loud he wants to do - force Canada into the Union via economic and trade war. Just because tanks aren’t rolling up the 401 to Ottawa doesn’t make such an attempt to extinguish Canadian nationality against the will of Canadians “better”
And even if Trump isn’t successful, making the lives of thousands or millions of Canadians miserable in pursuit of that aim is hardly okay.
It’s awful how he’s making a lot of us feel in this country and he’s doing it to you now and other countries. This is a world issue.
you can't drive tanks up the 401 to ottawa , it goes east west
I mean I could have said 401 to the 416 to the 417 but it seemed a bit OTT
This is exactly right. This is why he keeps talking about McKinley, renaming mountain…He thinks he’s finishing the job McKinley couldn’t….but remember…
Your willful ignorance is astounding.
I can assure you that Canadians are not going to “calm the fuck down” because some nobody named Jordan says so. Who do you think you are?
Wow you are so out of touch lol.
Hey dummy, you sound like the same idiots who said: "Calm down, Russia isn't going to invade Ukraine" Btw, Americans shouldn't be calm. You are a lazy and overweight nation, you have never won a war you started, and your false confidence and bluster fools no one. Americans should not be calm
This is some real narcissistic abuse enabler shit.
Thank you! (glad to see some Americans standing up for Canada in the comments!)
I guarantee you that at least 2/3 of Americans side with Canada. Unfortunately, they failed to vote last election. 😠
Yeah we have that same problem too 🤬
We voted, and it was stolen. With so much voter suppression and Musk helping the steal with software which the democrats did nothing about it that is how trump got in. I cannot wait for this nightmare to be over!
Canada should just preemptively bomb D.C.
How about you shut your fucking mouth and stop treating our country like Russia treats Ukraine
I'm old enough to remember: "Roe is established precedent."
You need a different job, a lesson in international relations and soft power, and a large dose of empathy.
Who the fuck are you to tell us to calm down? Va manger un char de marde, chien sale
Indeed, he is clearly siding with the administration or should i say regime?
The worst case scenario is Krasnov doing exactly what he said he would do by taking other countries one way or another. You, sir, are doing an impressive imitation of an ostrich.
"Ignore the guy who keeps saying he's going to kill you. He obviously is not going to do it. Calm down, honey."
The days of placating Donald Trump like the crazy uncle at Christmas dinner are over. He will be taken at his word and the response will be decisive. Deal with it ❄️.
Dude. Seriously. Open your eyes and realize he is actually insane and actually wants to do it. He’s talking about redrawing international lines and invading Greenland to protect it. He means it.
Nope. That's not what it's about. Trump will unilaterally alter, probably slightly, some of the borders. Canada will be forced to, and should, respond. Then, he accuses Canada of being hostile. Putin Plan, North America style.
This is not going to age well
The "don't be hysterical, he can't possibly mean the crazy things he's been saying" people have been disproven and made fools of over and over again in the last month and yet here we are watching them make the same mistakes over and over like broken records.
decade, theyve been doing it for a decade
That was my point! For a full decade, headlines made by outlandish tRump quotations and proposals were dismissed because they were not believable. Every time! And every time they were wrong to dismiss the statements. Every time!
Lots of things people insist won't happen keep happening, so it seems like a pretty reasonable concern.
Are you even following the news lately or is your head so far up your ass from huffing your own farts?
This is factually incorrect. The worst case outcome clearly centers around Trump’s threats to ignore treaties that establish the borders and claim more land for the US. That sounds a lot like an invasion.
Large scale invasion? Probably not unless the situation is ideal and pretence Economic war and everything short of violence to force compliance to annexation? Trump stated this clearly Ignoring territorial boundaries and claiming Canadian territory is being American? Already happening
More likely subversion thru maple MAGA but with trump I wouldn't put anything past him and musk because of their bosses in Moscow and Beijing
Roe isn't going to be overturned man, calm down.
Oh dear. Is Pollyanna your middle name?
Nobody gives a damn what you say, man. You're not exactly on the mark as history of past posts show. Reporter at "yahoo finance". Who would even admit that?
Threatening sovereignty doesn’t mean a full blown invasion. He’s already threatening to annex the Great Lakes and “Redraw the Border” Anything is possible. Did you expect America to become a Putin Puppet State? All Trump has done is proven to us America is no longer our friend nor our ally anymore
Fuck off.
This is disqualifying. The single biggest failure of MSM the last 10 years is not taking trump seriously
The worst case outcome is clearly Trump making us the 51st state. Take off, eh
*NOBODY* is telling this narcissistic asshole that his stupid fucking ideas are fucking stupid. That's not *remotely* the worst case outcome, you fucking house plant.
Wow. YOU have a tin ear.
If we're not invading Canada it costs nothing, absolutely nothing, to drop the policy demands like 51st state that cannot be achieved by any other means, indeed it is advisable
Hey, dude, are you sleeping?
My guy... "Trump threatens economic, not military force, to annex Canada" "White House official threatens to redraw Canadian border" No one needs crystal ball visions of the future or necromancers to translate his intent. We're a nuclear armed nation ending civilian casualty assessment offices.
You are an ass sir. Trump means to invade Canada 100%
I feel like Canadians have the right to be concerned that Trump will use military force against them. There is literally no reason to dismiss the possibility entirely.
Trump is abandoning Ukraine, making nice with Russia and destroying the federal government and economy from the inside. Nothing is unlikely, nobody should calm down - and an American saying that to a Canadian is an act of enormously arrogant douchiness.
That’s a follow.
jordan what would you place the odds of invasion at, cause if it's 1% willing to put down my $500 to your $50,000 that trump declares a military invasion
jordan im completely serious, let's fuckin do this
Bro, if you don’t think that invading Canada is on the table you haven’t been paying attention. Every territorial conflict starts with “musings” and “jokes”. Look at Crimea. This Canadian Anschluss. If you guys don’t smarten up and kill your president we’re gonna do it for you.
“He’s not serious, Just wait him out”, is the new mantra of the “don’t poke the bear” brigade. Real people are not alive today because of decisions made by this admin in the last few weeks.
A ratio upon thee, fool of fools.
Yessss!!
He, the most powerful man in the world, gets to be intemperate while, we, the people he’s threatening, have to be all nuanced? Fuck off.
Masha Gessen, “Autocracy: Rules for Survival” *Believe the Autocrat*
Thanks! I hadn’t read this www.osunstate.gov.ng/2016/11/auto...
Canadians love it when Americans tell us what to do.
Don’t be an asshole.
Easy for you to say....
Go fuck yourself, man. We’ll calm the fuck down when you assholes figure your shit out.
I stand with Canada, Ukraine, Mexico and NATO - except Hungary. I don’t stand with Trump, Putin, or their condescending supporters
Were you also condescendingly affirming that there will be no Trump coup in 2020? That Trump’s staunch pro-Putin ideology is a hoax? Etc, etc
Hey there Jordan. We will not be calming the fuck down. Until the felon in chief stops threatening our country, we’re elbows up. Piss off.
As you should be. Carry on.
Soooo… we SHOULDN’T take the president at his word?
Seems a bit odd to be so confident about this given who we’re dealing with and how consistently he’s been saying he’d do it
Not a lot of people seem to be aware he claimed during his call with Trudeau that the treaty marking our border is illegitimate
I appreciate Jordan as a reporter but just acting incredulous isn’t much of an argument, most people were incredulous at the notion that Trump would refuse to leave office in 2020 if he lost
why would people be so incredulous at the notion that trump would try a coup when trump himself was pretty explicit about it? the inability to take reality at the face value seems to be quite endemic amongst the american pundit class.
Also appreciate Jordan! I think where he's askance on this is that Trump is not invading with troops and force. He said he wants to reek economic havoc on Canada so that the US can then annex Canada I think he's indeed under appreciating the threat
Why? He appears to be a vacuous moron.
Because he is a very good financial markets/business reporter who knows his subject matter very well and whose reports can be trusted to rest on a firm factual basis. I don't really look to him for predictions of whether or not Trump's really going to try to annex Canada in the first place!
He seems like a real jerk
you know, this is all very sad: again, not only did trump very clearly signal that he wants to dismantle the federal state and its institutions, but it was spelled out in excruciating detail in the project 2025 documents…
…and yet the “very good financial markets/business reporter who knows his subject matter very well, and whose reports can be trusted to rest on a firm factual basis”, and who *specialises* in the federal government, thought it's all bullshit. do you now understand why people question his judgement?
(and that's coming on the top of the american arrogance that doesn not recognize other countries as real, allows you folks to make jokes about invading your neighbours or recommend people who are genuinely shocked by the threats made by your president that they should calm down.)
I don't question his judgement. I'm confident it's bad. Further evidence of his judgement being shite is his decision to keep posting through this, illustrating that not only is he a moron, but he's arrogant as well.
Between this post, and the one below, no one should EVER take anything he says seriously.
My advice, which seems to be the same as many others here is to shut the fuck up and take the L.
‘America first’ says it all. Our government views the US as superior to every other country on earth and therefore entitled to the vast natural resources of Canada and Greenland. And I’m sure it’s not lost on our ‘leaders’ that with climate change, Canada’s growing belt is set to surpass ours.
Says a guy who didn't think the trade war was going to happen either.
Get fucked dude.
When one country tells another sovereign country that they should be annexed, that their borders should be changed, and that all kinds of pressure economic, and maybe other types will be brought to bear to achieve those ends it is hard to stay calm.
Not sure if you noticed, but the mentally addled President of the United States and his cabal of Nazi and Pedo advisors have openly declared their ambitions to annex our loyal neighbors and have taken concrete actions to the effect. Trade wars are not the “worst case” scenario.
The administration, being run by complete ignoramuses, think that they can conquer Canada with a trade war. They explicitly want to take Canadian territory and add it to the United States. They have been saying this.
Fuck, and I cannot possibility stress this enough, you.
No, fuck you
Have you considered at any point that you are talking about something you lack the understanding of, and the people who feel threatened (because they are being threatened) are right to tell you you're in the wrong? Or is your head so far up your ass you can't even acknowledge that?
They shouldn't feel threatened. Every single person alive knows with 100% unshakeable certainty that it's not going to happen. Just stop lying
wow today I learned I’m dead
I know with 100% certainty that you are Elon Musk disguised as a giant penis. Everyone knows it.
unfortunately the one person who may not know this is the commander in chief of the US armed forces
will the US political system let him try to *invade Canada* of all things? probably not. a coup or civil war or something would be a real possibility if he tried. and he's so old and demented I doubt he could sustain a real push to do it. it presumably won't happen.
but a small chance of a horrible outcome is in expectation bad enough to worry about
Trump is lying. You know he's lying. Stop pretending otherwise.
just like he was lying about trying to overturn the election right?
clearly he couldn't be *serious* about this business of having a mob of his supporters go show Congress the election was stolen in person
Trump didn't accept the results of an election he won. Many people predicted he'd try to overturn the election. No one is predicting or even saying he will invade. This is not analogous
The consensus from elected Republicans, Republican intelligentsia, and mainstream American media from Nov 2020 - Jan 2021 was that Trump was effectively a toddler throwing a tantrum and we should chuckle and ignore it. It should concern everyone that this same logic is being repeated now
But when is Trump lying and when is he serious? I'm not sure if Trump himself even knows or cares.
I’m not even sure he’s “lying” sometimes yeah because lying involves knowing what’s true. He’s bullshitting in Harry Frankfurt’s sense of the word
Ya know what…fuck anyone at this late date still haughtily admonishing those of us who’ve always seen where this shit was leading about how we are overreacting.
I see headlines like this and it's not a real leap in logic that things progress further. It's certainly not "100% unshakeable certainty" that it's not going to happen. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Your guy is aligning himself with Russia while blocking arms support for the one country that is defending the West in Europe and you want Canadians to chill? The epitome of American myopia.
Lmao. Ok dude.
such a good bullshit predictor
Unbeatable tag!
We do? I guess every woman in the US thought Roe was safe 6 years ago too..... now women are bleeding out in parking lots and sepsis has literally become a real threat to pregnancy for the first time in 40 years. Do not underestimate how stupid can become reckless, and reckless can become reality.
Conservatives spent decades explicitly promising to appoint the justices to overturn Roe. No one is arguing we should invade Canada. If the conservative movement dedicates its time to that project, we can revise my claims.
Did the conservative movement dedicate itself to destroying the NIH or national weather service, yet it has happened.
Yes. They've been fantasizing about gutting the government. Trump is just dumber than previous Republicans and doing it in a way that guarantees greater backlash.
Bullshit. They do what they threaten to do. Is it that you’re just not in the direct line of fire from this admin and its agenda? Must be fucking nice. Do t presume to think you know better or are the wiser one here.
Motherfucker IS talking about invading sovereign nations, fuckwit. You don't get a pass on saying this shit as the head of a nuclear superpower. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
> Jesse singal follower
Undefeated.
Definitely the latter, imo.
Drink some water Jordan.
Log off already.
Fella, not only are you rude, you're wrong. I mean, *looks around at everything*. The 1st is easily forgiven, the 2nd not so much. Also, keep in mind that we have an awful lot of U-235, fully developed nuclear and aerospace industries and 0 fucks to give when it comes to the country. #elbowsup
Fuck right off, from all of Canada
Fuck you, you arrogant prick.
You really are the William F. Buckley of our times. Good job.
thinking of Buckley's debate with Gore Vidal, unironically this.
OK, you responded to this. But how about commenting on this brilliant prediction from 3 months ago: bsky.app/profile/jhwe...
STFU simp... PS start looking for a new job, MF!!!!!
How do people who keep saying "Trump doesn't mean it, calm down" and consistently be wrong about it keep getting paid to say Trump doesn't mean it, calm down. How the f*** do you still have a job????!
I guess being a propagandist for a fascist regime must pay pretty well, considering how many of these folks are willing to sacrifice any chance of ever being respected as real journalists in order to act as a mouthpiece for the neo-Nazi US president & his orange puppet.
Nobody is overthrowing the constitution man, calm the fuck down. They can't just get rid of the federal government bro, fucking relax already. Kids are not going to raid the IRS and use the data to extort legislators, my guy. Take a laxative already
"Trump is just taaaalking about stuff he doesn't actually dooooo stuff! Don't worry about Trump when he just taaalks about stuff looool" That's you, Jordan. That's your persona as a journalist. Nice work, ay
shut the fuck up and stay in your lane pissboy
You are why people hate journalists and are right to do so
How is it that a cashier can't tell off a rude customer but your Rocky Dennis looking ass can do this *as a "serious" journalist* and keep your job? Failson
Ah yes, I see he works for that venerable institution of reporting, Yahoo Finance.
go fuck yourself bud
YOU calm down!
It's not too late to apologize and admit you got this one wrong
Oh well in that case go right ahead… WTF is wrong with these psychos?!
please indicate which of the stupid and self destructive things he's said he's going to do are the jokes and which ones are the ones he's going to try to implement, because he hasn't made it clear for us
Hey, Jordan. Canadians cannot afford to dismiss this threat. Americans shouldn't, either. Stop acting like a low-grade shitheel, if you can.
You jerk.
Why do you assume this? What facts?
And who thought the US would pull the crap it’s pulling. Your assumption that everything is normal and just fine is a bit naive.
If he says go, Hegseth asks how far
The one thing that might prevent Trump from destroying Canada is that him and his dimwitted lackies might destroy the US first before they get their chance at Canada while folks like you stand idly by
I keep wondering about this as well. Hitler ran his whole campaign on how Germany was chaos and it was the Jews’ fault. Trump ran on a bunch of stuff was broken Biden Biden Biden. Now everything is in chaos since he’s been in charge. Can he rally the whole country to then unite against us? 🤷♀️
Were all rooting for the US to implode before they do more damage
🎯
Main character assures side characters the leopard won’t eat their face. Also they should calm the fuck down about the snarling, rabid leopard circling them.
Quit fucking normalizing this shit.
Oh? If you don't see that he's trying to cripple us economically so he can annex us you're not paying attention. No we won't calm down. ELBOWS UP Canada 🇨🇦
not sure why anyone would take you seriously at this point.
Hey buddy, I once again refer to the (paraphrased) sage advice of @dril.bsky.social in which you don’t, under any circumstances, need to hand it to Donald Trump. I think the chances of an American invasion of Canada are low, but you know what? They’re not zero anymore and that’s a fucking outrage.
You should be fucking outraged instead of snidely lecturing Bluesky posters.
🎯
Hey how about you dine on shit?
I would not be so confident. the reality with DOGE has been like 3 orders of magnitude worse than my imagined worst case scenario before Jan 20
Suppose some random “competitive authoritarian” strongman on another continent told his one-tenth-as-large neighbour that he thought the border treaty was “invalid” and by the way let’s revisit all those water resources we share and kept joking-not-joking about annexation. What if it wasn’t the US?
Not a thing that’s happened so far comes as any surprise to me. The writing was on the wall and they’ve been “in your face” boasting about their plans and doing it publicly all along. It will get far worse
Gaming out the worst possible path will get you pretty close but people will think you are insane until they realize you were right or close to it.
Making categorical declarations you later regret is kind of the hallmark of the Trump era(s)
Thinking it and speaking it are two different things but yes, I would agree.
Our Prime Minister, leading diplomats, and Premiers have all publicly stated that they believe the US is working on annexation. Your President consistently refers to us as the "51st state". What is it that you know, that they don't, which proves them all wrong?
Jordan is a reporter at Yahoo Finance covering federal agencies and consumer affairs.
Cool then he should be able to report a nice clear answer for me with evidence and citations
Couldn't agree more.
So the answer is “nothing.”
Jordan's a Trump minimizer.
Well, all I know is our president is an absolute fool so he thinks he's being funny or clever and coming across as a tough guy by referring to Canada as the 51st and Trudeau as the "governor". That's all I've got.
No he isnt....is he being funny and clever when he causes Ukraine deaths because he's a traitor and teaming up with Russia? Is he being funny and clever when he's betrayed all his allies and yet treats Russia as an ally? Is he being funny and clever when Donald when he pulled Ukraine intelligence
I think that's a reasonable analysis but also one he's counting on. Canadian politicians are not prone to overstatement, especially when it comes to the world stage. For the PM himself to accuse Trump of trying to annex Canada... that's a serious warning, and I treat it as such.
I agree that Trump is too hard to know for sure what he wants, but there's just no way that every leading Canadian politician would be saying this without being damn sure of it.
Fool yes. Orange clown? Yeah. But now the world sees him for what he really is: A fascist, felon, adjudicated rapist, Putin loving criminal who is leading the charge in destroying America from within. I absolutely cannot believe the insanity I'm seeing.
That's the best case scenario. But it's not a given. As Charlie Sykes put it, Trump may be a clown, but he has a flamethrower, and a clown with a flamethrower still has a fucking flamethrower.
Just today the News says Russia has made a big breakthrough in the Kursk region. A few days after the Absolute Fool in Chief cut out intelligence sharing to Ukraine, which would have warned them and which grounded their long range weapons.
An act of pure malice (as providing that information does not really cost anything) that may lead to Ukraine falling. In which case he will have achieved his peace, Putin his goals and Ukraine will be enslaved by Russia. The Nobel Peace Price I think will be off the table, though.
Europe has to pick up the slack while we have a Russian agent in the White House, I'm afraid.
Obviously we do. The problem is with moves this abrupt, we might be left to pick up the rubble. In Ukraine at least. While the most powerful army in Europe will be forced to join Russia. And we are truly screwed. I'd say give them their nukes back.
But was it the Absolute Fool in Chief who ACTUALLY cut the intelligence sharing?
He just turned on Ukraine and allied with Russia. Even if he’s just showing off, he’s a devious and destructive person.
You know Jordan, you’re only supposed to lick the boot, not deepthroat it
You don't know any more than the rest of us about "worst case outcomes," and the last 8 years provide pretty persuasive evidence that this crowd will always be worse than we expect.
But *why* will there be a catastrophic trade war
Folks like to treat these as somehow independent questions: "Trump wont do tank war with Canada because various practical reasons" and "Trump will do trade war because various Trump reasons". But the trade war is fundamentally *about* his belief in taking Canada.
It's important to see they are related because Canadians are directly harmed by the mentality, and need Americans to understand it is real, unhinged, and devastating because it is the underlying cause of the trade war itself, which is extremely real to canandians
Also like- this dude maybe not someone who should feel profoundly confident in his understanding of what trump will/won't do: bsky.app/profile/jhwe...
To be fair that did seem like a huge clue. But obviously it was giving Trump credit for a lot more object permanence than he has
Just because tank war with Canada would be a terrible idea doesn't mean Trump won't try it. He's dangerously unstable, this situation is going to come to a head fairly quickly and I am not willing to rule out the tank scenario at all.
Madness reigns.
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Well now we gotta go. #ElbowsUp
Has this ever been true about Trump ever
If there's one thing that reliably always ages well, it's "calm down, Trump doesn't really mean it."
Honestly, dude, if I'm killed by one of your gringo drones in a few months, I'm coming back to haunt you specifically. Get your head outta your culo.
The President is insane, bonkers insane, crazy Roman Emperor bonkers insane. No one knows what the fuck Trump is going to do. Not even Trump.
HI. EVERYONE EXCEPT YOU REALIZES YOU HAVE PUT THE WORLD ON THE BRINK OF WWIII. Maybe stop being so fucking ignorant and learn some history, bro. The French have basically said we are in the weeks ahead of WWIII. You fucking fools.
It’s fellow US Americans like that, they are making the revolution harder right now for US Americans who are vehemently against this. Just the absolute lack of critical thinking and the pure avoidance of what is obviously brewing at the hands of a government that’s been hijacked.
Buddy, for 40 years they set the scene for this. They destroyed your education, gutted the humanities, deprived you of medical and vacation time and social security nets. They have made it so you do not revolt because you don’t know better & you can’t afford to risk it. It was built this way.
Yeah, it was obvious after my first trip abroad that was oddly enough funded through my high school. There are people here aware of what has been happening, grassroots campaigns that I’ve been a part of since college. Not all of us are unaware. Not all of us buy into the system. We’ve been trying.
I realize that. But that’s always been the intent of the American ruling class.
Oh absolutely. And it dates back to the start of the country. The untied states was built on oppression, murder, colonialism and exploitation.
And marketing. 🙄 Yeah. Sigh. Here’s hoping y’all do the Hollywood thing and stop WWIII, but we are not holding out much hope.
Me as well. Our grassroots campaigns have never seen such a large increase in numbers than we have in the last two months and they are increasing everyday. Media isn’t covering the large protests, but they are happening almost every day. We have plans set out, but we are preparing for push back soon
We’re not unaware of that. Which is why the “centrists” deifying Reagan as a way to oppose Trump are so problematic. They seem oblivious to the last 40 years of dismantling the middle class & democracy via coddling & prioritizing the 1%.
No Jordan, you don’t get tell anybody they’re overreacting. Not in this timeline.
I’ll take that ratio, motherducker.
You aren’t looking at the big picture, son.
Europe is arming itself to the gills while Poland is reconsidering nuclear weapons but this guy says not to worry. Go back to interviewing dudes in the diner…
Asshole
How much are you willing to bet? Would you bet your life on it? Would you bet their life on it?
Honestly you have to feel a little foolish saying any form of “Trump won’t do X” with that level of certainty. Trumps a toddler and there are no adults in the room.
how about you get rid of your dangerously dimwitted president instead if telling others how to feel about the idiotic things he says and does.
Just stop being a complacent idiot.
Are you paying attention? www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
You calm down.
Canadians will not be patted on the head by some twat. Trump is a rabid dog. America is a global menace.
They're not going to overturn Roe v Wade either. How's they going?