It’s definitely stupidity of some variety.

Stupidity is contagious.

This is exactly why I posted it here. Pretty hard to argue that another Trump term (or a Trump adjacent individual being elected) via this violation of basic democratic principles would not have global implications.

This can’t be legal, right? Either way, keep pumping that national debt!

Canadians definitely haven’t been showing enough gratitude since these tariffs on their products came into effect!

“"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…

Textbook dominance move. “We are going to hit you and you can’t hit us back. If you do, we will hit you again.”

Reading this, it seems that Canada does have a few things that the USA needs…

/s

I agree on all fronts. Anecdotally, when I encounter the worst, most dangerous drivers on a weekday morning, they typically have young kids in the car and are likely rushing to do drop off.

We have dumb people living here too.

Yup. Unsurprising given Ford’s track record.

Notably: “The White House says, "Canada has extracted a persistent average annual goods trade deficit of roughly $50 billion from the U.S. over the last decade — while refusing reciprocal access."

The overall number is correct (it was $48.5 billion in 2025, according to the U.S. Trade Representative). But as premiers and others have repeatedly noted, the only reason for that is because Canada exported 3.9 million barrels of oil per day to the U.S. last year.

States near Canada's border need the oil, and it's sold at below-market prices, a significant economic advantage for the U.S.

If that oil were removed from the calculation, the U.S. would have a goods surplus with Canada. In other words, excluding energy, it exports more stuff to Canada than Canada exports to the U.S.”