Post

Only twice? In my lifetime I'd count at least four venal, dangerous buffoons -- Nixon, Reagan, Dubya and Trump. And from what I know of our nation's history venal, dangerous buffoons comprise the vast majority of our presidents.

We Cdns are getting a bit too "holier than thou" here anyways, as our healthcare is at real risk of privatization and nobody can even reasonably criticize Carney. But yes, your point is also really valid, and why US Americans likely don't trust each other either, knowing it will happen again.

Trump's second win simply revealed the truth--about 2/3 of Americans are very stupid or abysmally lazy or consumed by bigotry. And why would anyone think that will change?

Nailed it.

TOO MANY US CITIZENS ARE INCAPABLE OF LOGICAL THOUGHT OR COMPASSION. TELL THEM IT'LL BE GOOD FOR YOU AND SELFISH FOOLS BELIEVE IT WILL HAPPEN. SICK COUNTRY.

Being a US born citizen, living in Canada since 1976, I think of Canada as Americas wise cousin. My father and I had many discussions on Nixon, my father said “he’s a republican”. As if it was to say boys will be boys ….

Our government is an embarrassment. It's what we get when we raise a generation and more of uneducated kids in ruby red states. If you want it stopped, we need an educated electorate. It's why public education is so important and why the republicans hate it. Vote and run for local school boards!

Ignorant is ignorant,no barriers.

Albertan here. The maple MAGATs are going to lose. This is the dumbest referendum in history. Dani is catering to the base of the UCP because they have the most UCP memberships. She is balancing on a knife's edge. She enabled this. She will pay a political price for this mess.

A referendum that was illegally implemented by a group of maple-maga politicians and US connected traitors. It is failing BIGLY.

We would thrash any politician doing that because our healthcare is so underfunded. But yeah, ppl love to hate us.

There's no "in fairness," the referendum is going to lose spectacularly. It's also primarily a psyop by Americans and American money.

I’ve worked and lived in the US for years. It’s exactly who the US is. Ever lived anywhere but the US? You’d learn fast what we’re talking about.

True. But don't forget that Alberta's separation movement is fueled by American and Russian bots. Smith is a patsy (and hasn't figured that out).

This is a distraction of the point worthy of MAGA. (I'm NOT saying that Ben Osipov is MAGA; I am saying this tactic is their bread and butter: distract and project) If part of Canada are at risk of succumbing to the same disease, then it is even MORE imperative that they not trust us.

In fairness, it’s being bankrolled by USA operatives.

Truth

I dont believe there is a referendum as of yet.

You are only ever one election where people lose perspective away from something similar. Had Trump not gone after Canada , Poilievre may well have won and enacted a lot of similar shifts in tone and government character. When I lived in Alberta I saw how strong that current is in CA too.

Alberta was problematic way before Trump. You got my point.

So you mean to tell me a referendum built on a lie about hockey arenas? The audacity.

Yeah but in our country the dumbasses,while loud, are less than 20% of the population and not half of it

Encouraged by Trump and US conservatives. www.ft.com/content/11dc...

May well have is doing an awful lot of lifting in that comment. He didn’t win however, because Canadians act to shore up democracy before elections so we don’t have to protest after. Unlike Americans.

Yaaa I don’t know about that. Was Trump rhetoric a factor later in the election? Absolutely. But leadership change from Trudeau to Carney, swing NDP voters, cost of living, effectiveness of Poilievre were too. In the end Liberals got a minority government and lost some key seats to conservatives.

They do it because their critical thinking skills are undeveloped.

You need to look deeper.

Please dont push the false narrative that its just as bad here. It's not remotely even close

At least it looks like support for the separation movement is slipping www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Man they said the line about UCP support in the last election and they still won. 20 years ago Smith lost ab election for anti gay comments, 5 years ago radicals occupied ottowa for weeks....this break Canada for unfathomable reasons movement is real and could win one day.

Not comparable at all

Albertan independence will never happen & rarely polls more than 1/3 of the province. Alberta also isn't threatening to invade the rest of Canada & forcibly annex it by trying to destroy its economy & turn it into a vassal, unlike the United States. This both sides-ism isn't equivalent nor helpful.

I'm so sorry. 🥺

There's stupid people everywhere, this is not a good comparison. One rogue province in a small country is not even close to the same as one of the most powerful nations on the planet electing a christian fascist government headed by a reality tv host.

We can't cause change if we already agree. Find and convert a republican.

Can't argue the point.

Besides, I don't think 'thinking' was ever an option for the US.

While Musk DID RIG Trump's win there WERE MILLIONS who DID still vote for the MOST CORRUPT, INEPT, SELF-SERVING, VILE, CRUEL, MENTALLY ILL POS in America so they're not wrong, we DO have a LOT of IGNORANT people here!

This is the reason that so many Canadians have thrown their support behind Mark Carney and his plans for the country. We'll always be attached at the hip physically and economically, but we'll never trust you again.

It is amazing. After seeing how Shitler just fucked up the whole Covid response and then January 6, the stupid SOBs said -- let's do that again!

MAGA is a brain disease. But unfortunately America has a bad case of it. These people would have dear leader tell them his poop was steak. Eat it and ask for more. That is how brain dead and in a cult they are. They make the rest of the world think we are all like that and we are not.

It's not just that so many American voters thought Trump was a good choice a *second* time. It's the Republicans in congress are all in on it. They have the power to at least slow things down and even to stop some things - being that they have the majority. Watch what they do, not what they say.

I couldn't agree more. But remember that we are a nation of 350m people. Only 77m imbeciles, grifters, and degenerates voted for that childf**ker. The rest of us knew better. The best part? One day, he will leave us a headstone to piss on...

Hi Canada! First know that I love you and respect you. I understand you are pissed as hell and hurt. But please don’t take that out on black Americans or other marginalized groups who have never voted for this shit. White people did this. We need to own it. We need to fix it.

Yes, what’s that saying? “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

Short answer: They shouldn’t.

Absolutely. It was bad enough when they elected him the first time knowing all they knew about him, not least about grabbing women by the pussy, but to re-elect him after numerous felonies and an attempted insurrection makes them complicit in the extreme lawlessness we see daily.

I don't even trust Americans who voted for him ONCE.

(I have no business sharing this, since I don't even have time to read it rn, but I liked the quote and poster a LOT!)

www.youtube.com/shorts/ZaPyu...

They shouldn't. America needs to get red states educated so they stop listening to republican lies to steal their vote. Once they understand republicans have nothing for them but less benefits & more taxes, maybe then, they will give them the boot & start voting blue.

it's a HUGE mistake to think supporting sickness like trump is new to republicans. They've supported the republican dystopian agenda of the filthy rich FOR DECADES. trump is the end game, NOT at all new. That most weren't paying attention to decades of republican destruction doesn't make it new

The trust is broken. 🇨🇦 Is moving on. It's going to be difficult and take 5 - 10 years to build what we need to. We will be much less reliant on US trade.

Yup,look at the Latino communities who voted for a felon who hates brown skinned people..was that ever a good idea?What about 53% of white women who voted for a rapist who loves degrading women, was that a good idea?labor unions voted for a guy who hates unions,was that a good idea?You all FA & r FO

We, I repeat, did NOT elect him twice. In fact, there is reason to believe that we didn’t elect him once!

And the DNC is a hot mess, not to be trusted

And actually, BIBI had a heavy hand in the outcome too. He needs to pay for his crimes

Agree you the 100%. Just need to get the DNC out of the APAC cookie jar!

💯! Receipt confession here! 👇 Do something, & get in good trouble, America!🗳️🤷🪧📢✊🇨🇦

I fully agree with you. He cheated. He’s not a legit President. Between Musk & Russia…amazing nothing can be done about this.

Vote in such huge numbers that cannot be ignored or manipulated, because they know we’re done with their shit. An uprising must happen

I agree. This is what's so frustrating to watch. Instead, they rely on "checks & balances" that don't work and wait for the constitution to solve their problems. The dumpster regime mocks and defiles the constitution hourly.

You should try understanding WHY.

Yep.

Watched part of the LULA interview on ARMONPOUR ( CNN) He spoke the truth about TRUMP XI PUTIN IF THOSE 3 WERE THROATED THE WORLD WOULD BE DIFFERENT

twice elected a buffoon, twice betrayed

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice… I’m just a hopeless fool!

It’s sad what a group of under-educated cowards hiding in their homes clutching their Antichrist Bibles and guns have done to this once great nation. Yeah, I said it and I stand by every word.

Even when Trump is long gone, the system will still exist to allow for a repeat. #AmericaIsNoAlly for anyone & they rightly deserve international scorn & global isolation for what they have inflicted on the world.

I agree with you, I don't even trust my fellow Americans who elected a racist, Fascist PIG like Trump TWICE who bragged at his rallies: I could someone on 5th Avenue in New York City, and not lose any of my supporters!! This tell MORE about their bad character, than about Trump.

#fubardon Moronic Aimless Grift Again (MAGA)

Make USAmerica APOLOGIZE. For Fuck Sake. #idiots.

Yeah, everything is a zero sum game to him. Sad way to live.

Ah! Since no one has agreed with his deals, he is winning!

www.youtube.com/shorts/3JHgH...

Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me! But some MAGAts were fooled 3X! Shame on ???!

I'm a Canadian who emigrated from the US in the late 1960s. I was never fooled about what fucks much of american society have always been. I spent my life warning Canadians. trump taught them faster and better that you can't trust the US for anything but flinging shit, like monkey's in the zoo.

No one should trust us at this point in time. POTUS and members of his administration are liars and dumb.

That's the problem. Too much of Trump's approval rating depends on how people's wallets are doing. As long as they have money in their pocket, people could give fuck all about his ICE thugs gunning people down in the street or his sexual assault history

I will give Trump this: He managed to break Canada's decades old habit of aping US political trends. Our Maple Maga are rightfully despised now.

I think an ever increasing number of people in Canada and around the world recognize that he was not elected by the people at all, but installed by the tech-oligarchy. Either way, America as a whole allowed it to happen and the mechanism is kinda irrelevant.

But remember everyone didn’t vote for the idiot EVER!

Blame Elmo. He screwed us.

Blame republican congress always. Our founders put in checks and balances. They have been in power to stop mango and refused. Going back to first term impeachments and refused. But yes America has a lot of dumb ass people I will never understand. Now we ALL pay the price.

The satellite king admitted to helping the felon rig the election. He wasn't elected the second time, it was stolen for him.

Both-sidesing , loud right wing media, election meddling and voter suppression to start with…

I hear you. Our govt has done a phenomenal job of indoctrinating us in the fallacy of American exceptionalism. Our politicians have made sure that we're a country of poorly educated bigots & racists, because hate is an excellent tool for control.

Speak for yourself. Everyone I know has worked their asses off their whole lives to make the world a better place and tried to help less fortunate people. And it hasn't been easy! This shit now is on the republicans!

Given carte blanche entry and authority over government systems. Corruption is highly profitable here; the more dishonest you are, the more you thrive. Democrats are helpless spectators as politicians they once publicly respected repeatedly vote against women's rights, environment, and no more war.

Clearly 'cause and effect' as well as 'follow the money' rule your political perspective. Right on, my brother!

1:40 seconds in, is the crucial part of her segment on the admitted cheating. “You don’t need to vote THIS TIME…” we have all the votes we need.

Yeah that's so fucking unhealthy, not accepting responsibility. How did that pedophile get elected the first time? Apartheid Leon? Or a diseased society?

Republicans don't give a shit until it happens to them.

Elon Musk didn’t cast the ballots *If* he did game the system, the amount of disenfranchisement was not enough to cause the majority of Americans to disbelieve the result The actual support for Trump was still within the margin of error End result, no public outrage Case closed

Lying seems 2 be the culprit the 2nd time and believing those lies cost America dearly. Americans who voted 4 those lies were going all in hoping they were truths. Now ALL Americans suffer. Not an excuse, just a fact that SUCKS! 1st time? Fear of strong women doing the job better.

Exactly zero real Americans care about what degenerate trans enabling bozos think

Musk was responsible for Trump’s win in 2024.

I'm willing to trust individual Americans but on a case by case basis. Being on Bluesky is a point in someone's favour.

Yeah, except he wasn’t elected. He was installed.

Yup. Worldwide.