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[–] 42 points 2 months ago*

It's unhinged to call Canada the 51st state.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago

    Actually, it's a "trade special operation."

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Yes! How dare you stand up to the bully? You should take the wedgies and say thank you!

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    “"Prime Minister Carney used the term 'war.' It’s not a word we use, right? We don’t talk about it that way. For us, it’s business, it’s economics," Greer told the FT News Briefing podcast.”

    I guess we could just do some “business” and “economics” and stop sending electricity and oil to the US…

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    'We don’t talk about it that way. For us, it’s business, it’s economics,' Greer told the FT News Briefing podcast.

    Who is this 'we' he is talking about?

    Trump tweets: 'Trade wars are good, and easy to win'

    Trump says Americans could feel 'pain' in trade war with Mexico, Canada, China

    Trump Just Restarted the Trade War With Canada. Should Stock Investors Be Worried?

    ‘We Don’t Need Canada’: Trump Escalates Trade War With Threat of 50% Auto Tariffs

    It must be something not part of the US government and not represented by US media.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago*

    What would you expect from the government that thinks what's going in Iran isn't a war?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Their demands included us being a vasal nation.

    That is a declaration of war.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Most of these quips from US trade officials have been so weird and out there I can't even get mad.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    No, no, no, no, no. It's just enhanced interrogation techniques. It's not torture at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    The entire world is unhinged! The Untied States ripped the door off its hinges so hard, the hinges disintegrated!

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