Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, go Charlie! We need a Canadian public figure who is not afraid to call out fascism, because it will come to our country too if we sleep through the warning signs like the Americans did. Unfortunately, I see that the trolls and foreign-backed bots are already targeting Charlie on Facebook…
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
They don’t care if they lose freedom. I live in Alberta, and it is affected by the same culture war politics that we see in the US, spearheaded by Danielle Smith and other conservatives like Poilievre. The Maple MAGA will cheer it on, as their public health care and education get gutted out. 😞
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I live in Alberta, and it has become the same type of culture war politics that we see in the US, spearheaded by Danielle Smith and supported by other conservatives like Poilievre. The Maple MAGA will cheer it on, as their public health care and education get gutted out. 😞
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Could be lower, but we still have some conservative-leaning traitors who will buy American booze and other goods, or travel there for leisure. They love mini-Trump conservative leaders like Pierre Poilievre and Danielle Smith, and they’re against the ‘Elbows Up’ support of Canadian business.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
He is clearly unwell and deteriorating rapidly before our eyes. He is likely receiving intense medical treatment (like IV diuretics) behind the scenes this weekend so that he can get back to directing another week of the shit-show circus. But the “patching up” by his team can only go on for so long…
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
But MAGA will swallow any pride they have left and suck up all of the extra costs in silence, as long as they can continue to be freely racist, misogynistic, homophobic, etc. 😔
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m not sure if the United States can live down this embarrassment in my lifetime.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
The house is on fire, but many people still do not smell the smoke. 🔥
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. Being racist and misogynistic outweighed all of those things for the MAGA voters. They would never consider voting for a woman of colour. 😞
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I understand if people buy some US products as needed because of their budget or availability - that’s not who I’m talking about. It’s the traitors who brag about their vacations to Florida because “nobody can tell me what to do” or who make fun of the ‘Elbows Up’ movement to buy Canadian products.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
There are traitorous Canadians (mostly Polievre supporters) who continue to travel to the US and buy US stuff. I have Facebook acquaintances like this, and you can read FB comments from others. They are against the ‘elbows up’ support of the Canadian economy, just because they lost the election.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
He has cheated and grifted his entire life, because people have turned a blind eye and allowed it to happen. He’s doing it on a progressively larger scale because he thinks he can get away with it. It’s time for Americans to speak up and say NO MORE.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Sell your soul, lose your customers. 🤷🏻♀️
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, he’s clearly a Russian asset, who needs to check in with his boss for instructions. 🫡
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. Why would I spend money in a country whose president has openly vowed to use economic warfare (not military warfare) against us? But we do have traitors in Canada - some conservatives think it is unnecessary to support Canadian businesses with the ‘elbows up’ campaign or to boycott US travel.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
My American in-laws can’t understand why we didn’t visit from Canada this summer, as we always do. They are blind to the masked armed thugs, detentions, loss of basic rights, etc. because Fox News says it’s only happening to ‘bad guys’. Why would I risk putting myself or my children through that?
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Come on MAGA, this is the moment you were waiting for! Immigrants were ‘stealing your jobs’, now let’s see you get to work! 😇
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m not stepping foot over the border until the old orange pedophile croaks and his fascist MAGA regime implodes, or until the good Americans fight back and reclaim their country. Whichever comes first.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
A child-rapist and a child-abductor. What a perfect couple. 😡
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
A child-rapist president is rolling out the red carpet for a war criminal on US soil today. The world is watching this in horror.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Your posts reveal that you are a MAGA idiot, so stop using the Canadian maple leaf as your icon.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Unfortunately, yes. The United States will be his final bankruptcy, if you allow him to continue.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t want to agree with this sentiment, but I fear that it is true. My American in-laws came to visit us in Canada this month - they didn’t want to discuss politics, and they were acting like everything is completely normal. Bad things happen when good people stay silent (and thus complicit).
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Is she intoxicated??? Seriously though, she sounds intoxicated. She is quite belligerent and shifty.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, and she says it with such a wide and eager grin, like it’s the most normal and expected thing for a President to do.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Because too many good people are staying silent while all of this is happening. My in-laws still refuse to talk about politics because it’s “not polite”. The country is turning into the United States of Russia, but it’s not visible in day-to-day life, so many people are turning a blind eye to it. 🙈
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Neither is the word “freedom”. She smirked and stopped speaking after she said that word.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s no accident. It’s part of the race baiting that he has been doing for quite some time now. He also specifically refers to black people on his social media posts as “low IQ”.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. His minions have obviously practiced how to keep a straight face while he spouts demented garbage. 😐💩😐
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly. The NYT makes it sound like he has some kind of solid master plan with his tariffs, but in reality we all know that the tariffs are as shifting and uncertain as his hair combover in the wind. 💨🫣
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Using AI to track people and profile them? Well shoot, if I needed another reason to stay away from the US, here it is.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. For fake MAGA Christians, the religion is just a performative facade, to make themselves feel like they are better than everyone else.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s embarrassing to watch this level of unabashed public ass-kissing.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
There is no Republican Party anymore, it is all MAGA now.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Carney is a progressive leader who values scientific research and development, so I don’t think that his cuts will be reckless. But some government cuts are needed to pay for our burgeoning national defence (which many of us now realize is critical, after the US threatened us with annexation).
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I hate to break it to you, but that is the point. He wants the US to lose its position at the forefront of science, because he is a Russian asset who is bent on destroying everything that makes the US great. And so far he’s getting away with it.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly, they are his partners in crime.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup. Nothing to see here folks. 👀🫣
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
MAGA doesn’t care about either group of children, because the molested children were largely poor, and the children who are being killed are brown/muslim.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. This is what courage in the face of danger looks like.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Other countries will continue to develop this and leave the US behind in the dust. 😓
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Unfortunately, there are too many Americans who still believe the MAGA narrative, or who are staying silent while MAGA eats the country alive. My in-laws are in the latter group. I think they will only care if the changes affect their everyday life, but they are wealthy and white, so maybe never. 😓
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree. But we also need to recognize that there are conservative traitors among us who think that ‘elbows up’ and ‘buying Canadian’ is lame, just because they didn’t win the last election cycle (Pierre Polievre’s followers, many from out west). Just go on Polievre’s FB site and read the comments…
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree. But we also need to recognize that there are conservative traitors among us who think that ‘elbows up’ and ‘buying Canadian’ is lame, just because they didn’t win the last election cycle (Pierre Polievre’s followers, many from out west). Just go on Polievre’s FB site and read the comments…
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Many MAGA are totally gone already. They are willing to overlook ANYTHING that he does, because they believe that the allegations against him cannot possibly be true (or that the claims are exaggerated). My otherwise pleasant in-laws are neck deep in Fox propaganda lies and have lost all insight. 😢
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. MAGA does not want equality for all, they want preferential treatment for themselves from the government and wealthy businesses. They like to say “Screw you” to everyone else - the poor, the sick, the brown/black, the LGBT, etc...
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, our Canadian economy is proving to be more resilient than we thought. I’m buying mainly Canadian products, but substituting “anything but USA” products when needed (no offence to all, I will buy US again once fascism dies there). And we are led by a knowledgeable economist, so that helps too. 😊
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I think everyone should take a look at dama217h’s profile (the original poster above) and their deranged replies so that you can grasp the stupidity and brainwashing that you are up against. This is what MAGA truly believes, which is why all of the current problems will continue to get worse…
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, exactly. And this type of work is likely attracting white supremacists (Proud Boys, KKK) who got fired or suspended for pushing their agenda at other places of employment.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
MAGA hates educated people and what they can offer. They want syncophants who can cook the books, from the top down, and the markets are perhaps starting to slowly recognize this (?). The bubble is going to burst soon. This is one of the main reasons why I divested from the US several months ago.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Ugh, if she is now the ideal role model for women, the US is screwed.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, once they find a replacement “expert” who will cook the books 🙄
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Hmmm… it’s almost as if government regulations exist for a reason… 🤔
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you, PM Carney, for your tireless effort in this matter. Canadians need to keep standing together and support our own industries. We should also not encourage divisive rhetoric that undercuts our government’s efforts. I say this as an Albertan who will always be a proud CANADIAN. 💪❤️🇨🇦
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, I have no doubt the extortion has already started. I bet he’s making “90 deals in 90 days” to scrub that list.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, a new tax imposed on Americans, and the people will never see the benefit of this revenue. It will disappear into his vanity projects and the coffers of his wealthy friends.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Professor Richardson, thank you for all of the work that you do. This letter must not have been an easy one to write. Thank you for reminding us that the US is once again stooping toward this level of barbarism, because history tends to repeat itself if people don’t pay attention. 😓
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
There is a good website that summarizes the (known) project 2025 objectives, and keeps track of what has been achieved…over 1/3 of the objectives have been completed already by this administration… www.project2025.observer
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I know that there are many good Americans who didn’t want any of this. Keep up the good fight. I wish the best for you.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Fascist pigs…Which is why as a Canadian I will not step foot in the US for the next four years (or until he dies and the regime implodes, whichever comes first).
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t know… the market seems totally disconnected from reality at this point. Even if these fake deals were true, there would still be higher tariffs involved which will be absorbed by American businesses (who then pass it on to American consumers). But the markets keep acting like everything is 👌
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, he gives permission to people to be the worst version of themselves. White supremacy, misogyny, homophobia… people feel free to express those beliefs without impunity, like he does. 😓
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Getting so close to the 90 deals in 90 days! The phones are ringing off the hook! 🙄
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Unexpectedly? Really? Only if you are completely disconnected from reality.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
False. Business as usual cannot go on with this degree of uncertainty, in the form of ever-changing tariffs and targeted threats against companies who produce outside of the US. Also, we cannot overlook the instability created when a sitting President attacks the independence of the Federal Reserve.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I disagree. The centre and left are what brought Carney into power. PP is so far right now that I think you would be even more unhappy if he took power. He is watching and waiting though - keep stirring up division and you might find out.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok let’s see if PP will give you any of those things, once you have achieved your preferred goal of leaving us divided and leaderless. He’s waiting.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Nice try, but no. I just want the centre/left to remain united so that the far right doesn’t overcome our country, like what has happened to our neighbours. Would you prefer that alternative outcome?
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Carney has supported LGBT community, is trying his best to encourage dialogue with FN groups, etc. Is there a better alternative that you see? Is Pierre Polievre going to do any of that? That guy is waiting in the wings for the centre/left to divide itself and crumble, which you are promoting.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
So would you rather us be divided and paralyzed? Would you like to see our country weakened economically such that we must continue to submit to the USA’s demands, or worse, be annexed? Because that is the other option.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Sometimes I do, yes, because I have a life outside of the internet, and it saves time.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I think that Carney is trying to approach this issue in a sensitive manner. Unless we approve big infrastructure projects, we are going to remain economically tethered to the USA, a country that is currently bent on destroying all of us (First Nations included). Canada must try to build, or bust.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I think that Carney is trying to approach this issue in a sensitive manner. Unless we approve big infrastructure projects, we are going to remain economically tethered to the USA, a country that is currently bent on destroying all of us (First Nations included). Canada must try to build, or bust.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
He is a Nazi, and he used the same techniques of “admit nothing, deny everything, make counterclaims” after he did his Nazi salutes in front of everyone. He is no better than the rest of the MAGA elite.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
What? No one wants the chance to be grilled at the border and have their phones/bodies searched, be detained based on their political beliefs, or be dragged off the street by armed masked men and potentially thrown into a foreign hellhole with no due process? What kind of a vacation is that?!
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m trying to tell you that this guide is not giving you correct insight into our country, yet you are continuing to push onwards with it. So yes, indeed, I am smug about this. We did NOT harbour simmering disdain/hatred for Americans, as you mentioned on this thread, prior to the Trump era.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
With due respect, I was born and raised in Canada, have never lived anywhere else, and I don’t require a ‘Canada Guide’ to tell me what’s happening in my own country. Trump is not a cork - he is the detonation of an atomic bomb, destroying what was once a strong Canada/US relationship.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, I agree with you, before Trump it was a competitive/friendly rivalry between our countries, like between best friends. I never thought twice about crossing the border to visit the US. Heck, I even married an American (we live in Canada). Now I will not step foot there until the madness stops.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I disagree. How Canadians feel about America now is directly related to Trump’s threats to our sovereignty (which he is following through on by trying to use economic force, like he said he would) and the descent into a fascist authoritarian state in which people are disappeared by armed masked men.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. The worst was when Trump’s ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, suggested that we should see Trump’s 51st state talk as a ‘’term of endearment” 🤬🤬🤬
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
“What if people start doing that to us?”- tariffs have already caused a backlash amongst international consumers who are preferentially avoiding American goods because of this tariff nonsense.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, and I’m hoping it will discredit his Canadian copycat, Pierre Polievre.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I think MAGA were willing to overlook that he is a pedophile/rapist/crook because they thought they would get rich if he was elected…now they are realizing that they were fooled.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
How embarrassing. 😳
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I think Carney is doing a good job trying to negotiate with him, and trying to build trading and defence relationships with other countries. It can’t be easy trying to deal with a lunatic.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you read the letter he sent to Carney? They showed a copy of it on CBC last night. It sounded like it was written by a mob boss with a 5th grade education.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
They don’t even try to hide the racism anymore, but there are still people of colour who continue to support MAGA. It makes no sense.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s probably why he was chosen for this role - so that he can look down on the people there and belittle/threaten them on behalf of the USA. He will not be there to build bridges or promote understanding between the nations.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, they are unashamedly trying to rewrite the facts related to this incident in order to make themselves look remotely competent. The MAGA cult followers will believe every word because they are thoroughly brainwashed. 😵💫
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
They will never release it. Why would they want to compromise their most powerful asset?
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, he is evil. They all are. If anyone is “helping to foment violence”, it is these gestapo thugs and their complicit syncophants.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s such an embarrassment. Gold-leafing the White House while people are losing their children, homes, healthcare, human rights, jobs… It’s truly disgusting. 🤢
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly. He sounds like a mob boss, “Everybody has to pay!” He still has no idea how tariffs actually work. 😅 Also hilarious is Pete sitting next to him, probably downing shots of whiskey from that coffee cup. I guess that is one way to cope with all of this? 🤡🥃
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup. Fake plastic Barbie with fake plastic piety.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course, climate change affects all nations - I was just pointing out that developing nations tend to experience more loss of life with these events, due to the lack of warning systems, personnel, and infrastructure. Unfortunately parts of America are in the same situation.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
My guess is that she would not know this painting, the artist, or understand its meaning.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Just to be clear, I do not agree with the comments that followed mine that call developing nations “shithole” countries. That is just plain racism.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the kind of disaster that you often see in developing countries because they lack infrastructure and personnel to predict and prevent these types of outcomes. The fact that it happened in America shows what a lack of investment can do even in a supposedly developed country.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree. I love MeidasTouch (they report things faster and better than mainstream media) but I am loathe to share some of their links because they look like they are trying to appeal to a UFC audience.
Sunshine (@sunlovepeace.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, exactly. This is the kind of disaster that you often see in developing countries because they lack infrastructure and personnel to predict and prevent these types of outcomes. The fact that it happened in America shows what a lack of investment can do even in a supposedly developed country.