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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.

What the F@#K happened!?!

Someone dropped off a briefcase fulla Trump coins and Schumer magically did a 180.

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.

“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.”

Please eat my face more, daddy jaguar!

The mental gymnastics are real. Confirmation biases confirmed!

Those cool swirls on their uniforms though…

/s

"I'm a sociopath, empathy is a weakness, therefore you should be a sociopath also, or you're doing it wrong." --Elmo, paraphrased

8. Strength was originally Fortitude

FORTITUDE.—Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity; also complete success and honours.

Reversed: Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord, sometimes even disgrace.

I think it's accurate to say that Musk has tried to portray Strength in the past. But he has revealed his true power level as the embodiment of the reverse.

He's gone too far with special k and needs to come back. Many such cases observed in the scene during my youth.

They got bullied by their parents and continued the cycle. Just like most cops, they failed the IQ test, as is required. If you're too smart, they are allowed and do ban you from police work.

Smart cop example

Exactly. A cease fire now only plays into Putins hand, giving troops time to dig in, and time to repair critical infrastructure. Then he'll violate the ceasefire when he's ready to.

It's like feeling sorry for your enemy who is absolutely trying to genocide you. Don't agree to a ceasefire that only helps them!

Stay strong, Ukraine, and keep hitting them in where it hurts!

I felt the same way! I actually felt stupider for having watched one, and didn't want to waste any more time to figure out exactly why.

It's funny, I was just commenting on TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) articles yesterday.

For those OoTL, TDS is a serious affliction characterized by the inability to use Trump's preferred pronoun: Krasnov

ETA: It doesn't surprise me anymore when yet another predatory pedo gets found under Krasnov’s skirt, it's like a requirement for being in there.

I was thinking the same thing. Pass the buck to the impoverished insurance companies. Maybe one less yacht this year.

I believe we would never go along with a war against our Canadian cousins.

I fucking hope so. Many of us have relatives on both sides. We share culture, to an extent. It would basically be civil war.

Thank you for speaking up! Canadian of Irish ancestry here and I honestly thought he was a national treasure. But we don't often see news of Ireland.

putting the profits into the governments hands

Really it's just going into the oligarchs pockets in the form of tax cuts the government cannot afford.

While 4K resolutions provide a very detailed image for average viewers, 16K resolutions exceed the detail the human eye can perceive at typical viewing distances. Therefore, most people may not notice significant improvements with higher resolutions like 16K.

https://9meters.com/technology/highest-resolution-the-eye-can-see

These links explain it technically, but in summary, 4k or 5k video is really all we can perceive up close. Anything beyond this is really just wasted, unless you're talking really large screens.

We're almost at the limits of what we can see, so improvements beyond this like IMAX aren't needed for most applications unless you're recording 360⁰ video, or projecting onto a huge cinema screen.

This is the best news I've seen today. Thanks, Carney!

Check his diaper, apparently that's the scent within 20 ft of him.