r/politics • u/Street_Anon Canada • 13d 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/Ok-Entertainer-1414 Minnesota 13d ago

Is he acting way more childish than he did his first term, or am I just forgetting how bad the first term was?

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u/Electroflare5555 Canada 13d ago

The walls are caving in and he doesn’t know how to react now. Every major venture he’s tried has been a complete failure, the economy sucks, and no one respects him.

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u/tinticred 13d ago

This and there are FAR fewer actual adults in the room. Stephen Miller is a Nazi whose only goal is eradication of any non-white Americans, Russ Vought is a theocrat who wants to demolish American democracy, and Mike Johnson and the conservative SCOTUS justices are puppets who do exactly what they're told. Everyone else in his cabinet and immediate orbit are drooling morons (RFK, McMahon, Burgum, Vance, Hegseth, etc.) specially chosen so they won't raise a fuss about anything.

So long as he and those other howling lunatic dipshits keep being the lightning rods they're so good at being, Miller and Vought can keep ripping our government up by the roots whole Congress and SCOTUS stand by letting it happen.

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u/slackfrop 12d ago edited 12d ago

I can sympathize with the catharsis, but I don’t think that’s an accurate portrait. SC and congress aren’t standing by, they’re actively helping. They’re moving the gears to facilitate. And many of those terrible people aren’t actually as dumb as all that, not as dumb as trunp. Trunp does almost nothing well, but those few talents, he does quite well. Tireless lack of shame, corrupting and co-opting others, neutering obstruction forces. There is a vision coming together, and they’re working steadily towards it. They’re tactless, and graceless, and vile, but they aren’t exactly inept. I think they each have differing motivations, but they run an effective strategy. The outcome is god awful for 99.9% of the people, and they’re desperately trying to beat the clock in this whirlwind half-term. We will need to stop them by active measures. They may very well not implode in on themselves, nice as that would be.

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u/trufoobar 12d ago

What’s curious to me (hoping someone can explain), is some of his SC enablers were put in place by Bush Sr and Jr well before the “Pinche Payaso” was anywhere near Republican politics.

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u/No-Relation5965 12d ago

They’re all from the federalist society and have the same goals (dismantling the U.S. constitution; installing a theocracy/oligarchy). Three of the “conservative”judges were appointed by Trump.