Trudeau decides it's just not worth appeasing Trump in foreign policy shift

For the first time in my life I may have to vote Liberal in the upcoming election in 2019 or whenever it is. Voting for the name Trudeau would make me want to vomit though. (his dad was Prime Minister for like 14 years or something and was super socialist- talked of a Utopian Ideal society and bankrupted Canada)

I wonder how my beloved leader Harper would have treated this US administration, rumours are he didn't get along with Obama which is odd. My guess is Obama wasn't pro free trade enough for Harper who wanted to be super aggressive, he tried forever to get Canada into the EU, with the deal getting done semi-early into Trudeau's tenure. I think Harper originally wanted to be a near full member or something close to what Norway's deal is.

Odd that the right wing has historically been very progressive when it comes to foreign trade, and still is around the world. However in the US, it seems the right wing is much less open to trade than the left.

Remember the good old days where the president of the united states taking money from childrens cancer stuff would've been a scandal.

Instead we got that and today's hillary was proud of using slave labor.

Lovely presidential race we had, a narc who dgaf vs a narc who dgaf. At least Hillary wasn't as stupid I guess?

I could see this really setting off Trump.

I'm not gay but I'd get in the middle of an Obama and Trudeau sammy.

#justthetip

This is astounding

trump will soon be way too busy to care about canada

You evil bastards, obtructing a great man and his family! *sniff* I don't know how you can live wth yourselves.



https://twitter.com/yashar/status/872285994145292288

Really does look like he's about to cry. He sincerely believes this idiocy. Would be funny if he weren't profiting bigly off of our tax dollars.

It's not as odd when you consider that the American left is right-center and think about the horseshoe of global left and right

And the Canadian and Western European right being much closer to the center than in America (and with their far right loonies being separate entities)

And when we do get a Bernie who claims to be Democratic Socialist but is more like a Social Democrat, then that's far enough for our left to be somewhat protectionist and somewhat opposed to free trade

The right was ardently free trade forever in America until literally the second Trump was the nominee, then everyone flipped in an instant to TRADE BAD, the exact same way the right was anti-Russia/anti-Putin until GOD EMPEROR TRUMP told them PUTIN GOOD.

There is a dangerous cult of personality in America right now affecting over 60 million people. The right, Trump's own children, have already started to dehumanize anyone who doesn't agree with them and direct violence at non-believers.

This is a pretty terrifying time, and I hope the world will react to help right this sinking ship.

Personally, I hope we see some massive tariffs or something for our Paris pullout.

What's horrifying is how they thought the cult of personality thing was going on with Obama and circulated all those chain emails (and later, facebook memes) about DEAR LEADER and not questioning him and how all our institutions had been changed to make us all see Obama as emperor

Yeah, the modern GOP only knows how to project. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that's a typical trait amongst cult members.

What I can't get over is the civilian helping kneel on protestors in Portland Sunday

Just working in tandem with police to be brutal. When if they don't know the civilian, they're going to shoot or taze and arrest him for "helping"

I see potential for that to flow in both directions, like "Its ok this time because now the leader is ONE OF US and it's retaliation"

as much as the right whines about how the left's media is biased, that is again projection. The left mostly doesn't want to be spoon-fed what we already think is true. There are some nutters who think GMOs are the devil and will only read news sources that confirm this conspiracy theory, but the rate is far lower and the people who do this are further on the fringe than, say, Fox News viewers.

Do you ever recall CNN refusing to air anything about the Clinton impeachment proceedings because they were trying to cover for him? It seems very likely Fox will refuse to cover the Comey hearings. Even if they don't, they do plenty of stuff like that all the time. And that's their mainstream news network. It only gets worse on the right.

There simply is no comparison to this on the left or the middle.

Oh, absolutely. I didn't mean it flows left and right. More like the justification <-> projection game the right plays

Of all the **** today, my favorite had to be Eric Trump saying that he doesn't even consider Democrats human. Somehow it was just perfect hearing that from a guy who looks like a Ken Doll brought to life by a genie.

Is Trump's blocking of critics on Twitter unconstitutional?

Here world, have another ****ing ally. UN****ingbelievable!

About 150 million, no? 60+ million were just the voters.

tough to say how many exactly, most of those who can't vote (the young, the incarcerated) are not trump fans. But yeah, it's probably closer to 100 million

I would say no but not a lawyer or a judge. I assume a lot of accounts that he blocked is for no reason other than they hurt his fee fees. I think he should definitely not ban those accounts (only obvious trolls/super ****ty stuff [LOL at that when 80% of his tweets apply here] should be banned) as it is and should be a public forum of sorts. Can't see how it would be unconstitutional tho.