He makes a horizontal motion with his hand, signifying a limit, while saying there’s “a cap, we capped, a hard line” and then is heard telling Trump, “I thought you’d actually like that.”
Trump, sitting, responds, “That’s good. I like that.”
He’s so fucking easy to manipulate.
That’s exactly what’s happening here.
No longer a secret that world leaders are basically being taught how to manipulate him before meetings. That’s how low the US has fallen. They’re getting guides that are basically explaining how to get a toddler to do what you want them to do.
Those psychologists are worth 300 billion it seems
Except it’s true, he caved hard to Trump.
Any US leader would be happy with it, it was to appease to Canadians who don’t pay attention, the US, and Tesla at the same time.
Don’t forget the auto industry, people who work in the auto industry, and China hawks.
Like, sure, it’s a very guarded concession to China, but US pressure is hardly the only motivation for that.
Canada doesn’t have an auto industry. The US uses Canada as a colony for cheap cars that they can sell back to us.
Could you imagine? Being a colony? In Canada? Only now is that a problem. It’s so strange how many Canadians are just now learning what Canada is in 2026 and then talk about it smugly like they realized something others haven’t.
The Dominion of Canada (still our official name) is a dominion of the British Empire not a colony of the US.
Furthermore, US Manifest Destiny existed long before 2026.
Right, and as we all know, whatever you call a thing is definitely what it is, prommy.
You’ll recall that much of the UK economy and political landscape mirrors and is deeply influenced by the US. Either way, just a few years ago, I’d get shit every time I said Canada was subordinated to the US even though, as we’ve seen, resistance against it is very easily appropriated by liberals (as in liberalism, not exclusively Liberals as in the party) as they actually do benefit from that subordination. The common capitalistic objectives and settler-colonial culture creates the same interests between them even if they are separate, which is why “Elbows Up” has just meant “funnel even more money into extractive industries the US benefits from.”
That also isn’t “our” official name, just Canada. You aren’t part of it even if you think you are.
So you learnt that our official name is Dominion of Canada today, congrats.
Biden was way more annexy than Trump is. Trump is just our chance to escape, much like in his first term.
While we aren’t currently a dominion, that’s mostly because we weren’t able to get out of NAFTA until Trudeau. We can still vote in UK elections with residency thanks to Canadian citizenship.
You’ll recall the big CANZUK/EU pushes in Canada under the Obama regime. So don’t act like this is anything new or that Canadians didn’t want this whenever you had that opinion.
However many thousand auto workers would disagree. As would a look at margins on auto manufacturing, and the difference between US and Canadian prices.
Which of those thousands of auto workers don’t work for an American company/for the American market?
There’s a high probability you work for the American market.
Then I can afford to lose my job.
Except it’s true, he caved hard to Trump.
Not just Trump, but the conservative half of Canada. And he “caved” by re-instating the same cap that was there before anyway…
Conservative Canadians are pro-crown or pro-Quebec not pro-American. Not denying that there are American agents here, but denying their Canadianism.
Wow, you don’t spend much time around Conservative Canadians.
It’s like finding pro-Russian Finnish or Polish people. Our history makes us hate everything about them.
Those people aren’t Canadians.
Then you best learn more about your history. This is pretty Canadian.
I don’t think that has been true in a long time. Probably about the timeframe that fox news channel has been available.
Conservative Canadians are pro-crown or pro-Quebec not pro-American.
Even if I were to entertain this, my point still stands. The Canadian Conservatives that aren’t American bootlickers are still disproportionately anti-China because they still feed from the same propaganda.
Some Conservatives. Maple MAGA is like 50% of Conservative voters (or party members? I forget now), with the other half being the old-fashioned kind.
There’s differences within parties, and similarities across them. Although Lemmy, like any good partisan, tends to ignore that.
Every time I see a picture of someone explaining something to Trump, it looks like Trump is pretending to pay attention and absorbing nothing.
It looks that way because it is that way.
Yeah he rarely has ever seemed to understand anything but a benefit to himself. The magat morons think he’s a genius too.
he rarely has ever seemed to understand anything but a benefit to himself.
Which is exactly why Carney phrased it thay way.
It’s really hard for a sack of shit to retain more than it’s smell.
“Listen here you incessant child……”
