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They lack a theory of mind for everyone else, see eg Iran negotiations

Yup, that's about the level of geographic awareness we can expect from this administration, and the amount of counterproductive stubbornness we can expect from DJT himself.

That would have lost him, and the LPC, Quebec for a generation and, honestly probably trigger an election.

Fuckin if there is anything that can get Anglo Canadians to stop bitching about Quebec it's anyone ELSE threatening Quebec

The ultimate tech-bro dream: treating linguistic sovereignty as a "latency issue" that can be optimized away for a better margin. Localization is just a bug to them.

That’s what the fuck this is about?!? JFC we are not going to survive another 2 1/2 years

"Would stand" Dammit.

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The FLQ wasn't that long ago...

Oh I absolutely meant they would do it for the "fuck him".

Yes. Yes we would.

Hon hon hon!

lol wut Was the next request “call a press conference and then hit yourself in the dick with a hammer”?

Tabarnak!

Even my father-in-law, who lived in the USA, is ashamed. There are the diplomatic consequences, but there is also the public image. And when I look at my family—who used to be very close to the U.S. but aren't anymore at all, regardless of whether they lean left or right...

And Carney said during the Q and A that the US negotiating team wanted limit Canada’s ability to sign other trade deals with other countries at the 11th hour, which was obv a non-starter

If he wasn’t talking about the brave tailors and fashion designers of Jonquière, then he pronounced the French word for culture, which is “culture”, correctly.

Though just realised that el in couture might be Québécoise prononciation

Anglophones and allophones all across Canada stand by keeping our official languages on products. (And adding Indigenous too.)

Chronic inability to understand that there's a difference between "morality" and "what's good for me, personally."

he's been trying to get us into the EU and made a LOT of deals with China, which I assume was the impetus for that particular derangement.

It’s pretty egregious given that trump was trying to make carney violate our constitution to do this

#2 is a definite "Non!" #1 is easy enough to counter: "On the same date USA mandates dual- language English-Spanish, amigos."

Champion Feet Shooting.

I’m sure they were going to use AI to generate the captions anyway, so how much could it have cost them?

Is French Canadian significantly different? I speak French, but I don't understand a lot of French Canadian colloquialisms, etc.

well, and also probably oracle software which is by far the bigger ellison business. they’re just buying up media companies so they can pump aesthetic fascism into the brains of dumb dumbs.

POTUS nvr read Sun Tzu bcz having Mein Kampf at the bedside was enogh Poli Sci

I would be so pissed off with Carney if he'd gone for it.

All any of these guys do all day is sit on twitter and try to book TV appearances

It’s actually amazing that you can view Trump thru the lens of “what would the dumbest person you know do” in any given situation and he almost always does it

There’s also “don’t copy randos when transmitting your war plans”

I am getting reports that in retaliation for scuttling the deal, Mark Carney has deployed Caillou to John Roberts' house

I think that eg the crew of the Abraham Lincoln can confirm that he didn't read those parts either.

Which he also did not read [re: Iran]

”all of the book that isn't "make sure to pack enough lunch for everyone” But that part of the book is written just for US carrier groups under Trump administration.

they also didn’t read that bit, judging by recent events

And "have fun storming the castle"

I think him not going for that has zero to do with his career and everything to do with respect for Quebec and their rights

Yeah I mean why bother

rookie mistake. have you met quebec? lol.

"I squeeze the accordion. And I squeeze it again! And sounds come out. Lovely sounds, like a shapely woman. So I squeeze it."

Exactly thanks

Either that or he did understand and knew the Canadians could not accept. If that's the game, Trump gets to make it look like the Canadians didn't play along so he can retaliate, rather than it being him not playing along. Does that make any sense? I don't know enough about what's going on.

Trumpa the hutt.

They're the dumbest, most entitled thug assholes.

Sounds right.

“The UK should change its spelling, stop using those useless ‘u’s in words like color and favor. and what’s this “mum” business? It’s a 3 letter word, are they dumb (that’s got a b on the end, not many people know that)? It’s “mom”: m - o - m. Like SOS, which is what people say when they see me.”DJT

You can delete those last two words and it would still be true.

New Brunswick, or Nova Scotia? Referred to IIRC as Acadie, thus Acadians -> Cajuns.

Yeah, no, we’d sooner kill oursleves than agree to that. God he is such a fucking MORON

Throwing a bone to those who obsess over the expense of a little extra ink on cereal boxes.

Calice en estie sa ne vaux rien la

Yeah, that's the thing

I'm intensely curious about this part of the (non)deal. What evidence is there about the involvement of the Ellisons, or other American oligarchs, in trying to kneecap Canadian requirements for bilingualism?

There is indeed a lot more but you’ve got the emotional center of the thing for Trump (which is always the most important part for a bunch of people who are still emotionally in middle school). Bon courage, les amis.

You don't fuck with Quebec. That province will basically break your spine electorally if they turn on you.

Trump can eat shit!!!!!

Political suicide for any Canadian PM to do it, but especially bad right now as Quebec will have a provincial election in a few months and every candidate would have no choice but to bash the decision nonstop.

If it's Ellison-related I'm going to hazard a guess that it has something to do with the Canadian French dubs being done locally the way a lot of shit in Spanish has two dubs (one for Spain, one for Latam)

Omfg. Quebec, to my understanding, is like 14/10 French language militant

Montreal Gazette reported on it

imagine him trying this with the EU

That was probably their plan. Create division.

"assassinated by the Quebecois" would be one hell of a way for it to happen

Loin d'être seulement le Québec.

Preposterous claims to hurt Canada: What is Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, the newest tariff authority the Trump administration is using to impose 50% tariffs on Canada? x.com/PIIE/status/...

Huh. But wouldn’t that mean the powers of the American government and the many interests of its people all being made subservient to the preferences and increased enormous riches of one family’s business? That’s not at all how our system works, is it? Sure not what I was taught in 10th grade civics.

Tabarnak!

you know, i doubt french subtitles are expensive, but packing for everything shipped in north america & mexico all has to be shipped printing in french/spanish/english. i don't know how much all that extra ink costs but i bet it adds up. i was racking my brain thinking why they would want that...

That’s right. And other manifestation of 🇨🇦’s deep pride in and defense of their *nation*

I believe Trump wanted to make the negotiations so toxic that Carney would have no choice but to back out, giving Trump an excuse to escalate further. I think there's a lot more nonsense to come.

I seem to recall that French on products is a pet peeve of Howard Lutnick.

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It's gotta be a poison pill inserted by someone to tank the deal on purpose.

He didn't, is the lesson.

I worked the polls at the last federal election, posted in a retirement community, and the level of "this is the guy, fuck Trump" from several hundred elderly Québecois was off the charts.

Next up: Trump requires France to speak English. Restarts Hundred Years War and gets Nobel Peace of Shit Prize.

This is the kind of thing that gets asked by people who know nothing after they fire all the people who know anything.

Nah it’s so they didn’t have to make French packaging for American food

forget career, they'd guillotine him.

Genocide is always in fashion here.

GEEEESH! 👀⚡️🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦⚡️🤔🙃 #DTStupid There are more #BlindEgos - in the White House than anyone can count! #psychopaths have no perspective!