Thoughts on USA-Canada Relations
MY THOUGHTS ON USA-CANADA RELATIONS
Why is Canada’s Mark Carney meeting today with someone who continues to lie out of his ass, hurls repeated insults, and spews idiotic delusions of grandeur about seizing control of a sovereign nation with a long history and proud people with the second-largest land mass in the world?
Meeting with Trump today at the White House isn’t just a blundering badly-timed mistake for Canada’s newly-elected Prime Minister. It’s madness. It’s like negotiating for your own lunch money with the 5th grade bully, on his playground.
This is a really dumb move, made even worse by its location, making things appear the Canadian Prime Minister is groveling and desperate to make “a deal,” as though trade talks are like lowballing with a guy wearing a checkered jacket for a used car. Truth is, Carney WON HIS NATIONAL ELECTION only a few weeks ago because of Trump’s clownish idiocy, which backfired big time with voters north of the border. Carney’s political strength then and especially NOW is standing up to schoolyard bully who is actually very weak. He must demand one simple and singular thing before any talks begin, and that is RESPECT.
Truth is, the one who is desperate here is Trump, with his tariff tax-hike trade war proving disastrous and our nation’s economy in danger of imploding. Attention-starved Trump DESPERATELY needs a bold fresh headline and a win. Somewhere. Someplace. Anywhere. On any front. He needs a trade victory, even if whatever scrap of paper gets signed is pretty much all bluster and bullshit, and you can be sure if it happens — it will be bluster and bullshit (probably just a rewording of the previous agreements, with the date changed, sort of like re-stacking all the boxes inside the garage and then saying you cleaned the garage).
Heading into today’s “talks,” Trump continues to lie — to everyone. Even as late in bi-lateral negotiations as this morning, his foolish social media posts about “subsidizing Canada to the tune of $200 billion annually” is patently FALSE. Not only that, but remember TRUMP DEFAULTED on the previous 2019 USA-Canada free trade agreement (a.k.a. USMCA) that he HE NEGOTIATED, APPROVED, and SIGNED. This current phase of back peddling and posturing tells us everything — Trump’s “word” is shit. It’s always been shit. His commitment means nothing — not to his wives he’s humiliated, not to his colleagues he’s thrown under the bus, not to the banks he’s repeatedly stiffed, not to businesses he’s run into the ground, not to employees he ruined, and CERTAINLY not to other nations, most of which he can’t find on a map. He cannot be trusted on ANYTHING. Why negotiate anything with such a chronic loon of dishonestly?
But far troubling about engaging in “talks” with someone so stupid and unstable are Trump’s maniacal totalitarian blabberings and insults. Repeatedly. On social media. In interviews. “The 51st State” derangement.
My message to Prime Minister Carney and all Canadians is this:
Until Trump and his gutless pack of inept lapdog lemmings SHOW YOU THE RESPECT YOU DESERVE as a SOVEREIGN NATION, do NOT negotiate anything. Not a meeting. Not a trade conference. Not even a phone call. If the phone rings, slam it down. And certainly, no meetings or talks. Fuck him.
Allies DO NOT threaten their friends and neighbors, slur their friends’ history and heritage, and insult tens of millions of good people who have stood and fought and partnered with the United States for as long as we’ve both been nations. Before any talk of tariffs or trade or anything else commences, one thing is always required….*mutual respect*. Without respect, there is no foundation for trust nor cooperation. Pretending otherwise is foolish.’Mark Carney, previously told reporters, “I’m ready to sit down….when there’s RESPECT FOR CANADIAN SOVEREIGNTY.”
So, where’s the respect?
You won’t find it today at the White House. This meeting (happening right now, according to reports) is idiotic. Before any “talks” begin, first Canada should DEMAND AN APOLOGY.
