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Ladies and gentlemen, the dumbest person on the planet, Donald Trump.

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[–] xye@lemm.ee 3 points 50 minutes ago

The most common response to this as an American from other Americans is “he’s joking, or it’s just a deflection.” And that can be true. But like everything else he’s said - it’s always a joke until it isn’t. But if you’re Canadian it was never a fucking joke to begin with and I’m here for it.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 11 hours ago

People joke that being Canada is like living in an apartment where the person living in the floor below is a crack addict. Now, that crack addict is trying to steal your toilet to sell it for crack.

[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 hours ago

We’ll wipe out anyone who dares to invade our country. Scorched earth. We will render the Great Lakes radioactive for thousands of years.

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

But 50 is such a nice round number

[–] fishtaco@lemmy.ca 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Nasty is a compliment. It's what he called Freeland after she stood up to him in the last trade negotiations.

It's also pretty funny from a guy who jails children, threatens others constantly, abuses power, and makes enemies just by breathing. I actually think in his head "nasty" really just means "won't simply bend over for me".

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

This is it, anything but his way is unfair. Same for most of the right.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

nasssty little canadianses

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

they HATESss uss. they put the tAriffssss on usss!

but we loves the canadienses! we want them to be our stateses!

NOO! we hates the nassty canadienses. we give them MORE tAriffsss! make them ssuffer!

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago

I know I'm asking a lot, but can anyone compile the list of everyone that Trump has called "nasty"? Because I feel like we're in really good company.

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 73 points 1 day ago (3 children)

“Nasssty Canada, with its healthcare and reciprocal tariffs!” Krasnov hissed. “It burns us, precious!”

He hunched over in the dim glow of the Oval Office, stroking a golden golf ball in his palms, his eyes darting between it and the maps spread across his desk. “They take advantage of us, yes they do. Always winning, always smug with their free doctor visits and politeness. Weak! But strong! It’s tricksy, so tricksy!”

A cough echoed from the corner. His chief of staff, a weary-looking man with thinning hair, cleared his throat. “Sir, this—uh—this meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau is important. We need to discuss trade.”

Krasnov recoiled, clutching the ball tighter. “Trade?! TRADE?! Filthy free-traders! They cheat us! Steal from us! But we—” He paused, his voice dropping into a desperate whisper. “We could… could take their milk, yes, yes! Their delicious dairy! Make America milky again!”

His chief of staff pinched the bridge of his nose. “Sir, we already produce a lot of milk.”

Krasnov’s face twisted, his fingers tightening around the golf ball like a strangling grip. “No! Canadian milk is special! It’s… socialist milk! It must be destroyed! We put tariffs on it, we crush them, and then we take it for ourselves, yessss!”

A flicker of doubt passed across his face. He shook his head violently, as though fighting himself. “But what if… what if Canada is right?” His voice softened, a pained expression twisting his features. “What if… universal healthcare isn’t nasssty? What if… it’s… good?”

He gasped, stumbling backward, horror-stricken. “No! No, no, no, never! That’s socialism! That’s evil! We hates it!” He flung the golf ball across the room, where it clattered against a bust of Lincoln and rolled onto the carpet.

His chief of staff stared, unsure of what to say.

Krasnov froze, then slowly crawled toward the ball, cradling it again in his hands. “We must punish Canada. Yes, precious. We must make them pay. Or else… or else we lose.”

A long silence followed.

Finally, the chief of staff sighed. “I’ll call the trade representative.”

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[–] millie@beehaw.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump is aging like a Nazi opening the Ark of the Covenant.

[–] NewDay@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The difference is that Göring, Goebbels and Hitler cared about Germany. Krasnov only cares about Russia.

[–] millie@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hitler, he only had one ball

Goring, had two but very small

Himmler had something sim'lar

And poor old Goebbels had no balls at all

I dunno. I can't see more than two of those names in succession without this popping into my head.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 128 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

He's not dumb. He's cancer. He's aggressive. And he intends on metastasizing to the entire world. Strongmen only respect strength. We need to show him how nasty we can be. Watch what he does with targets he perceives as weaker than us (if there are any). If he goes after Panama first, or Greenland, you can be certain that we are next.

This is not empty rhetoric folks. I've been saying it since before the election and I'm going to keep saying it, he's actually coming for us. His first term was full of empty threats. This one hasn't been. He has followed through, and he will follow through. He will continue to bully us and come at us sideways for awhile, take what he can by hook or by crook, but eventually he will get impatient and greedy. He is coming. Prepare to be another Ukraine, another Afghanistan. The latter is a tiny, technologically backwards nation that is called the "Graveyard of empires" for good reason. We can be that, and we will need to be that. I say this to reassure you that it is absolutely possible to defend our sovereignty against a much larger aggressor. This is anything but a lost cause, but we need to take it very seriously, because he is deadly serious.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 71 points 1 day ago

He absolutely is dumb. But that doesn't mean he's not dangerous.

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 day ago

He looks to us the way Putin looks at Ukraine.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Someone tell Doug Ford that capitulating to Trump is not going to pay off. He seems to be moving from big talk of resistance to total submission.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

My take: Conservatives fear liberal/progressive societal advances more than they fear fascism. It's the same way the DNC fears progressives and would rather lose the game than give progressives a platform. Conservatives love big business and fascism is the result when capitalists fear societal regulation and conservativism seems threatened.

[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 25 points 1 day ago

That what conservative do they would sell canada at the first chance but they have to look like big bad men so they bark a little then roll over

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[–] Englishgrinn@lemmy.ca 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I have never known a man who needed to get punched in the face worse than Donald Trump. I am not a violent man. I detest "online tough guys" who treat every situation as an excuse to advocate for violence. And I'm not saying I endorse a bullet or a guillotine or something like that. I'm not even saying I'd punch him.

But this man has clearly never been punched in his shit-talking mouth, and if someone had done it 40 or 50 years ago, we wouldn't be here now.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not even saying I'd punch him.

I'll do it.

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

Get in line.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And I'm not saying I endorse a bullet or a guillotine or something like that.

Honestly, my greatest wish for Trump and Musk? That they have all their wealth and contacts stripped from them, and they either spend the rest of their lives in a blue collar prison, or homeless on the street without a single soul willing to help them.... I'll settle for the guillotine though.

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[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 81 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I deal with every country, indirectly or directly. One of the nastiest countries to deal with is Canada," Trump said.

I'll take that as a complement from you. Thanks!

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 day ago

Yeah. Tells me our government is working.

If he stops being adversarial on every situation and threatening us then we'll be friendly, like we are with every other country.

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Donald Trump was meant to die in prison.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Founding fathers would have had him hanging from a tree

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

America has been subsidizing Canada

2024: Canada imports ~$480 billion total from the USA. Divided by 40 million Canadian population, that's $12,000 for every man, woman, and child spent on American shit.

USA imports ~$586 billion from Canada. Divided by 400 million population, that's only $1,465 per capita, and that's only 1/8th of the amount that Canadians bought from the USA in return.

##BUY CANADIAN, BE FAIR!##

You can't compare apples to apples when one side of the equation has 10 times the population. If we're trying to be fair, Trumpistan needs to buy 8 times more Canadian shit!

Tariffs on the Canadian side will be reciprocal and will only serve to make us stop buying Murcan shit, leading to an even bigger Trumped-up deficit and the loss of their biggest, best customer. Likely long-term.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

"Hello, is this Canada? I got a vermin infestation in a White House that could use fumigation. Do it like how you did in 1814. It is too far gone to be saved."

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 day ago (30 children)

Good. Proud to be Canadian.

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[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let's show lil' don how nasty we can be.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He still wants to annex us.

Canadians, crank up the nastiness a little more.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So why does he want to annex Canada if it's so "nasty"?

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago

Nasty, filled with drugs, and we have nothing that Americans need! LOL What a clown.

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump can go fuck himself, can't he?

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[–] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Canada will be waiting! Elbows up!

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