No need to turn it off for good, 5 minutes every hour or two would be a good reminder
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025
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I think pushing the button requires waaaaay more backbone that Druggie has. Just sayin'.
Isn't Ford, like, the Donald Trump of Canada?
He's more like Eric Adams. It happens to be that he's a conservative suburbanite but his guiding principle is having power and making money, there's no ideology mixed in
To be fair to Donny, he doesn’t have ideology either. All he has is his own narcissism.
There’s no policy consistency whatsoever from Trump’s first term to his second term. The free trade agreements that he is now so unceremoniously dumping by imposing tariffs are the very same ones HE signed during his first term!
Trump has no plan whatsoever. He just flies by the seat of his pants and licks the boots of the biggest authoritarian assholes he can find (Musk and Putin).
He has a core guiding ideology of American exceptionalism and imperialism. America first. God bless America, specifically. Not that he understands any of this, most of it comes from intuition and having the worst scourge of mankind whispering policy pitches in his ears, but I'd say that much is very consistent. It's just that it got so worse from one term to another that it looks like a departure - but to anyone paying attention to the things he tried in his first term, this is a continuation.
Edit: for instance, he signed the NAFTA deal he's complaining about, but it wasn't because he liked it, he signed because that's the best his team was able to negotiate. They told him to sign, he signed it. But the same dumbasses that advocated for the tariffs back then, advocated for them again this time. So once again, he just nods and signs, as long as his team says the right MAGA words. The moderates were expelled from his team because Trump wants to be even MAGAy than before. It's the same ideology, with less checks and balances.
I think that’s mostly narcissism. But moreover, right now he’s acting against American Empire. He’s taking actions to isolate and diminish the USA. By abandoning alliances the US worked so hard to build, Trump is handing power to authoritarian enemies such as Russia and China.
He's kind of old school corrupt conservative. He generally tends to stay away from anything socially conservative and just focuses on blatantly enriching himself. He's been handling this whole situation really well though.
Not exactly. He's actually gotten along great with Trudeau this whole time, so it's fair to say the populist firebrand thing is an act for the cameras. His brother was the mayor of Toronto and started the whole dynasty (as far as I know), then died. One theory might be that the crazy was not shared.
The other conservative premiers have been taking a much more appeasment-y tack. The worst one is easily Danielle Smith. Poilievre (the federal conservative leader) also seems a bit lost about how to handle this.
Not at all, please don't Americanize our politics
I mean, he is a big, blond blowhard that rams through culture war policies, so there's similarities.
Not saying he shouldn’t do it, but the US would have the power back very quickly and Trump would spin it to his supporters as an act of aggression. I don’t think most of the people who temporarily get inconvenienced would see it as a wake up call. America is too far gone. I say that as an American from Michigan that lives in Canada.
Do it! Show some backbone. Make us feel the consequences of stupid policies and maybe our leader might just shut the hell up.
As someone with limited knowledge of Canadian politics, who is Doug Ford? If he isn't the prime minister, how does he have significant power and influence to go against the US?
Also, if he is that powerful, he can teach us how to!
Doug Ford is the Premier (think Governor, sorta) of Ontario, our most populous province. The power company might be owned by the provincial government, too
Could a Canadian governor have the power to stop electricity being exported to another country? I imagine that this has to be discussed and enacted on the national level.
Canadian governor
Premier. Not governor.
In Canada, the electricity sector is under provincial jurisdiction, not federal, so this would not need to be discussed on a national level.
This would mostly punish people who never wanted Trump in power. It's a purely spiteful move, which in all honesty wouldn't hurt Trump. The executive branch would just say not my problem.
What would you suggest we do instead?
Possibly. Everyone is out for blood, which is a refreshing change from sticking our head in the sand like we have for so long, but being out for blood famously can also go too far.
The people actually in charge are taking a very balanced approach. For now, dollar-for-dollar tariffs are the only thing that's for sure. The long list of other ways to fuck with the US are being held in reserve for a bit later.
We didn't want this either but the biggest difference here is we didn't get a choice.