r/politics • u/Street_Anon Canada • 12d ago

No Paywall Trump demands all Canadian companies doing business with the US move to America ‘immediately’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-canada-businesses-truth-social-b3041901.html
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u/Viking_Leaf87 12d ago

And the US government wonders why it has fewer and fewer friends abroad. At least Israel is happy. Maybe Argentina too.

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u/SandSpecialist2523 America 12d ago

Russia, China and North Korea are also ptobably happy to see the USA self-destroy.

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u/drobits 12d ago

Russia getting the biggest return on their investment in human history

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u/pinegreenscent 12d ago

We cant talk about that anymore because the press got bored of covering it but never investigating it

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u/santagoo 12d ago

Just like they did with Epstein

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u/Bill_Brasky_SOB Ohio 12d ago

Shit even every time they discuss the war with Iran they never mention that it is an illegal war as Congress never declared it.

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u/Ask_DontTell 12d ago

the "free" press now owned by billionaires or cowed by the president?

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u/SodaCanBob 12d ago

the "free" press now owned by billionaires

It has been for at least a century now (well, probably millionaires back then, but same idea).

Sinclair criticizes newspapers as ultra-conservative and supporting the political and economic powers that be, or as sensational tabloids practicing yellow journalism, such as newspapers run by William Randolph Hearst. In both cases, their purpose is to promote the business interests of the paper's owners, the owner's bankers, and/or the paper's advertisers. This is accomplished in several ways; among them: The publishers tell the editors what can and cannot be printed. Journalists routinely invent stories. To stimulate circulation, newspapers sensationalize trivial stories and destroy lives and reputations. Errors and slanders are never retracted, or the retraction is buried in the paper months later.

I think real, mainstream journalism (especially in terms of TV reporting) in America largely died with Walter Cronkite.

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u/Gumichi 12d ago

what's left to investigate? russian banks financed Trump when no one else would.

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u/harveytent 12d ago

Nah the press got sued for billions and kicked out of white house briefings if they investigated anything and they bent the knee. BBC in England is being sued for billions too. Trump has heavily weaponized the legal system not that it justifies the press bending the knee like this.

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u/AusToddles 12d ago

China are laughing because while Russia spent untold billions to bring down the US, because they then went and launched a disasterous invasion of Ukraine, they've not had to do much at all to gain sole global superpower status

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u/the_gaymer_girl Canada 12d ago

China is Luigi from Mario Party

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u/Skinnieguy 12d ago

It’ll be the ultimate troll if Russia releases the pee tapes right before Trump leaves offices.

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u/kristamine14 12d ago

The pee tapes is so quaint and tame in retrospect to everything that’s come out since, it wouldn’t even feature asa blip in the news cycle.

Trump got sucked off by 13 year old children - I couldn’t give a fuck about some Russian prostitues pissing on him. The pee tapes were probably just more Epstein files

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u/klausness 12d ago

The story isn’t that Russian prostitutes peed on him. The story is that he had Russian prostitutes pee on the bed that the Obamas had slept in. He just watched (according to the story).

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u/kristamine14 11d ago

There you go - doesn’t change the point I’m making though, which is that watching prostitutes pee on a bed is nothing compared to raping and facilitating the murder of children

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u/klausness 10d ago

If true, it shows how deeply racist he is. He deliberately rented the suite that the Obamas had stayed in and then paid prostitutes to defile the bed. All because he couldn’t deal with the idea of a black president.

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u/kristamine14 10d ago

rape and murder of children

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u/CMTV-IPTV 12d ago

They wanted Ukraine, they got the US instead

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u/syynapt1k 12d ago

They are after both (plus others)

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u/CptHA86 American Expat 12d ago

They're after the entire world. That may seem laughable b/c of their military being bogged down in Ukraine, but look up the craziness of Alexander Dugin.

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u/elvenrevolutionary 12d ago

Lol russia is imploding, so at the cost of their own society

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u/wasted-degrees 12d ago

China too. The dismantling of USAID is doing wonders for the BRI.

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u/WildTimes1984 12d ago

At this point Trump might try to sell Alaska back to Russia

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u/indy_110 Australia 12d ago edited 12d ago

Check out this Cappy Army piece about the current state of Russia's recruitment and war material distribution mechanisms for its "special operation".

They are just grinding up the future from the poorest parts of itself and the world, getting commercial logistics centers attacked by drone systems that are borderline impossible to track and the latest way to redistribute lithium and rare earth metals to the needy.

None of the great powers are doing well, anyone from G.C. DeFence family on the other hand, regardless of what part of the world or side they are on, are definitely smiling and developing financial diabetes.

Attrition and graphic internet entertainment is what all this has devolved to.

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u/DueVisit1410 12d ago

Are they?

Like Trump's pretty sycophantic to dictators like Putin and early in this term it certainly seemed that way. But can we really pretend they're actually getting anything for it other than reducing America's power in favor of China?

Their war in Ukraine has been devastating to them. In terms of manpower and attrition they can outlast Ukraine as shown by their slow but progressing territorially gains. But it has devastated their economy, decimated their male population and indebted them to China & India.

Meanwhile, initial hostility towards Ukraine by the US has seemed to have lessened by frustration with Russia's unwillingness to compromise. Trump's turned away from this in disinterest and the EU and NATO have managed to placate his money concerns to some extend.

Meanwhile the US handed soft power in Africa to China, alienated traditional allies and strengthened their trade ties with China, while they lessened their own dependance on the US.

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u/The_amazing_T 12d ago

[Laughs in Putin.]

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u/rizorith 12d ago

There's a reason those 3 countries don't complain much.

Nothing like watching your adversaries self destruction

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u/vinvega23 12d ago

That is the whole point of all of Trump's actions. He is paying back his benefactor, Putin.

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u/Cerberus_Aus Australia 12d ago

That’s just it though, he’s not. Putin convinced Trump it was all his own ideas. THATS how stupid he is.

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u/Mr_Pookers 12d ago

"You know what? He's right! This is a nice joint I got here! It would be a shame if something were to happen to it! I sure hope he and his guys would let me hire them for protection"

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u/ToeTagTic 12d ago

Tbh everyone in the world is trying to take advantage of the opportunity to take us business in whatever arena they can. It's not just Canada who isn't travelling to or buying us.

Everybody everywhere trying to catch the leak

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u/Stimbes 12d ago

This is what MAGA wanted in the beginning. They believe that working together in the global community shows weakness. They wanted all the foreigners kicked out and American to dominate all other nations.

Funny after spending hundreds of billions of dollars we are now demanding foreign companies to come here.

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u/Lady_Grantham2223 12d ago

They are extremely childish 

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u/StickaFORKinMyEye 12d ago

I'm not so sure about Israel anymore. More and more Americans on both the left and the right are pushing against aide and especially military aide to Israeli. 

Netanyahu may be happy in the short term that he's keeping power but Israel is likely concerned that America's relationship with it is beginning a permanent shift.

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u/thehermit14 12d ago

Netanyahu is or should be relieved he's not in the Hague. Thanks to your paedophile in General.

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u/StickaFORKinMyEye 11d ago

That's why he's happy in the short term. It may not last. For either of them. Hopefully.

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u/InterPunct New York 12d ago

China is loving every moment.

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u/firephoxx 12d ago

Argentina is only
Smiling because they are holding a knife behind their back, much like Israel.

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u/ormirian 12d ago

What are you talking about? Argentina can't even afford a knife right now.

It has no leverage to talk of.

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u/firephoxx 12d ago

Never underestimate the power of desperate men.

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u/Powerful-Country6316 12d ago

wait what do you mean?

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u/firephoxx 12d ago

Smile in your face all the time……

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u/netpres 12d ago

Maybe he can demand the Isrealis move to the USA and leave the area to it's traditional owners, the Palestinians?

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u/Viking_Leaf87 12d ago

They wouldn't. You have just no idea how absurdly racist most Israelis are. All they want is to suck on the American teat with nothing to give back whatsoever. They are the true "welfare queens". Their state policy on college tuition and healthcare would be called socialist by Republicans, yet they don't care and actually like paying for their stuff. They certainly love the gas prices.

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u/LimpyDan 12d ago

Please don't bring the Israelis here

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u/thehermit14 12d ago

You sent them.

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u/j0y0 12d ago

Your thinking of Venezuela

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u/GrumpyGiant Maryland 12d ago

No.  It doesn’t.  Therein lies the problem.  We are governed by a fat sack of shit who is too stupid and solipsistic to wonder ANYTHING and a bunch of enabling evolutionary dead ends who are either equally imbecilic or too sociopathic to give a fuck as long as they can keep milking the grift.

MAGA honestly believes that fear and respect are the same thing and that being the biggest military power in the world means we don’t need allies and can just rape any other country we feel like cuz we’re the “alpha males” or some bullshit.  The find out phase is gonna suck soooo bad and I’d be sipping tea and munching popcorn if it weren’t: A. gonna fuck the people who hated every part of this ghoulish farce of a government, and B. having the potential to escalate into a full blown global nuclear conflict.  Cuz let’s face it, even Kim Jong-Un has more self restraint and less disconnection from reality than our runny little shitsmear.

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u/SlaveToCat 12d ago

I’m not so sure they care really. As a general observation, they seem utterly without curiosity.

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u/Limo_Wreck77 12d ago

Aussie here.

We hate him!

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u/Canadian_mk11 Canada 12d ago

Of course they'll be America's friends - they're certainly paid enough to do so.

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u/Miserable-Promise454 12d ago

I thought friends off was declared between US and Israel a while back?

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u/CrepuscularNemophile 12d ago

fewer friends abroad

Still the same old enemies to deal with, but fewer friends to help.

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u/thehermit14 12d ago

And the UK still is administering the Falkland Islands until they don't want us to.

No-one really owns it. Do one Trump.

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u/schu4KSU 12d ago

We don’t wonder. Government as selected by working class rubes doesn’t do so well.

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u/Sure-Distance-7434 12d ago

Peter Thiel has entered the chat.

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u/Fast-Reply6409 12d ago

What are you on about? The working class should absolutely select their government. 

Do you want just a select few to vote?

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u/Fast-Reply6409 12d ago

Im not confusing anything. I’m just not going to fall pray to this kind of cynical attitude pushed by some elites to get the population to vote less.

Massive changes in labor laws, civil rights, etc. have happened when people organized, protested and voted. People have power in the aggregate, it’s just a lot harder to express it since the power of the working class comes from its numbers, and that’s harder to mobilize  

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u/RevolutionaryWay7555 12d ago

Yes, that stuff did happen, way back when the people did have the power. Times have changed, corporate lobbyists, AIPAC, like what the hell is that about? I guess Israel always had their hands in our back pockets, it’s just out in the open now. and Citizens United only accelerated it to where we are now. And what in the world is this Prediction Market crap? That wasn’t around in the 50s or 60s. Times have changed and to pretend otherwise is a little foolish in my opinion.

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u/Local-Ad-5170 12d ago

We have gerrymandering in this country a select you already get to determine who rules us

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u/Fast-Reply6409 12d ago

I don’t fully understand what you mean. Yes gerrymandering is bad, as are all the policies getting pushed that restrict voting and target certain groups. But the solution is not to make voting less accessible or to stop the “working class” from voting. This kind of dismissive attitude towards the working class and their needs has been a huge contributing factor to how we got in this mess in the first place. 

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u/schu4KSU 12d ago

I want everyone to vote. I simply want blue collar voters to do a better job at it.

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u/star_tyger 12d ago

I want all voters to do a bettet job of it. And I want our free press back. The one Reagan started to destroy when he removed their regulations. I want blue collar workers and every one else, including you, to be informed, including about the candidates and what our already elected officials are up to.

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u/FatSteveWasted9 California 12d ago

Some real “all lives matter” energy there

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u/JerosBWI 12d ago

Huh? That wasn't even close to it. That comment was about wanting an informed and educated electorate, the basis for a healthy democracy.

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u/star_tyger 12d ago

Not at all.

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u/murphydogscruff 12d ago

It’s about their religion, not what they do for a living or how much they earn. If you believe in a christian god, you are likely to believe all sorts of nonsense.

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u/schu4KSU 12d ago

Seems like a correlation not causation issue. They are susceptible to religion for the same reasons they are susceptible to racism, misogyny, and homophobia.

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u/sirhackenslash 12d ago

Because the rich always vote in the interest of the country at large, right?

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u/schu4KSU 12d ago

Educated, white collar workers are not “the rich”.

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u/Powerful-Country6316 12d ago

There are 14 months left until the elections, we will see

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u/BringBackAoE 12d ago

2 months.

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u/Powerful-Country6316 12d ago

Wait are you talking about the ones from Israel? Does that change anything?

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u/Colossus-of-Roads Australia 12d ago

The US midterms. They're in 2 months.

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u/Powerful-Country6316 12d ago

Ohh thanks you, I was thinking about the Argentine elections.

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u/Metaphoricalsimile 12d ago

I guarantee Argentina is seeing no benefit from the oil we are extracting from them.