Despite Bessent’s claim that people want “what the U.S. has got,” Greenlanders insisted they did not want to join the U.S.

Americans are deluded about their country being the envy of the world. No one is looking at the USA and thinking "I want that" except for the most desperate and the most gullible and propagandized. Everyone else is quite happy to avoid what the USA has, because they find it disgusting.

And that includes most of us Canadians. Apart from the stupidest and the traitors and grifters (jointly known as Conservatives) we absolutely do not want to become part of your shitty and declining country. I have many American friends and mostly they ask me how they can escape to Canada.

Not being American is one of the deepest, most consistently held parts of Canadian identity. It's why we are so insistent on spelling colour correctly.

What a dumbass.

It's much more than just an ignorant statement. The US is actively supporting the secessionist movement in Canada. The State Department has met with the leaders if the Alberta secessionist movement in Washington to support them and told them they would immediately recognize Alberta as a country when the time comes. No doubt there is funding flowing to the secessionist movement from the US. Bessent is also not just some innocent guy pushing numbers around for the economy. He admitted to engineering the currency crash in Iran as part of their regime change plan and called it "economic statecraft."

The US is working to undermine Canadian sovereignty. This is the same bullshit the CIA does around the world, and they've been working on it for a while in Alberta.

Doesn’t exactly have his finger on the pulse of Canada…or even Alberta.

There is a minority of conservative Canadians - generally the gun nuts, and now the anti-vax right - who bloviate about separating every time there’s a Liberal Party Prime Minister…it’s been happening since the 70s. They’re stupid…they rotted their brains watching American political entertainment. The same Maple MAGA morons forget all about separation and suddenly get all patriotic the second there’s a Conservative Prime Minister.

They’re truly idiots, just like MAGA. They’re currently losing their minds over Mark Carney…a PM who’s governing to the right of anything their last candidate promised. He should be their wet dream…but they don’t care about outcomes: They treat politics like the WWE…they don’t give a shit or know anything about policy and it’s effects. To them politics are as nuanced as a match between Hulk Hogan vs The Iron Sheik.

Backwards, Americans want to be Canadians because the US sucks.

Shit. You’d need to be an absolute fucking moron to want to be part of that dumpster fire.

If Albertans want to leave then pack your bags. The land is staying part of Canada. You can leave.

It really feels like they're trying to pull a Crimea. They've already been amplifying (if not outright fabricating) the voices of the very few sincere separationists to make it look like it's a majority position. Now they're setting up a referendum, which will likely be accused of being rigged if it fails or used as pretext if it passes, because it's obviously not legally binding.

Fuck. Off.

You have to realize that most of these dipshits are stupid and deliberately ignorant. They just pull stupid shit our of their ass as they wait for the cocaine to take their anus away like their hero trump. Its the goal of all of trumps chumps to have a malfunctioning anus.

only one thought comes to mine about this mans words, What a piece of shit he is

Not sure if I'm more annoyed by Bessent for talking shit or by the Daily Beast for calling this merely "tone deaf".

America is governed by losers and has millions of loser who call themselves American citizens. 

fuck America and Americans. Rancid asshats. 

Scott Pissant is a walking, talking stereotype.

Why would I want to live in a situation where 1/3 of the country hates the other 1/3 of the country, they don't believe in science, medicine and vaccines, they elect a man baby rapist to lead the country, and mass shootings are a thing because they need just to protect themselves from some future boogieman?

Fuck that noise.

That's not tone deaf, that's a threat

I have seen Beasant discussed as well regarded on wallstreet. Yet whenever I hear the guy speak he sounds like a complete moron. Then I discovered he took a fund worth 4 billion and turned into a 557 million dollar fund and I realised there was evidence to back up him being a total moron.

Why would I want to be a Nazi?

Why would I want to be a member of a country that for decades has been all "hurr durr don't tread on me mah guns won't allow it" and are now currently being tread on and are all "please more treading daddy, i'm too scared to use mah guns"

nah. I don't want to be that.

There is a very vocal minority that are 100% in agreement with that statement up here in Canada. The vast majority Canada (myself included), however, disagree in the strongest possible terms.

Slander.

I've discovered the reason why trump went after brown people first, he wanted all the taco for himself

Shut up, Scott.

EVs in general, as they are now, aren't a good long term investment. After six years they'll need a new battery that will cost more than the car is worth, unless there's some leap forward in battery manufacturing.