Standing in a street with a sign isn’t going to fix this.

75 million people standing in a street with signs would be a start.

75 million people blockading government buildings, preventing the Nazis from doing their job would definitely help.

How many people protested Vietnam? How many people were involved in the Stonewall riots? For fuck’s sake, how many people were involved in the January 6 attempted coup? They may have been fascist thugs, but they got things done instead of sitting around saying “I can’t do anything, it’s the government’s fault!”

FUCKING ACT! If signs don’t work, then get more signs. Barricade government buildings. BREAK THE FUCKING SYSTEM and stop whining about it!

If you’re going to judge his plans based on his campaign speeches, then you deserve nothing but ridicule.

It was a full fucking YEAR before the election that he was invited to say he wouldn’t be a dictator, and he declined.

“We love this guy,” Trump said of Hannity. “He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.’"

That was from December of 2023.

Oh, and how about his faithful?

“We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections,” said Kash Patel (gain, from late 2023)

Here’s an article from a month earlier: "A mass deportation operation. A new Muslim ban. Tariffs on all imported goods and “Freedom cities” built on federal land.

Every single person who voted for Trump in 2024 or didn’t bother to vote at all has explicitly said they support a violent, expansionist, nazi regime. Nearly every person who voted against him did not enough to keep him from gaining power, and ARE STILL NOT DOING ENOUGH. Instead of taking up arms (literally or figuratively) against him, you are defending his voters.

Take some ownership of your problems.

That’s EXACTLY what Putin wanted. Hell, that’s what Putin’s aide wrote as a blueprint for destruction of the west, a decade or so ago.

It might be a glowing one. I’m more worried about nuclear war now than I have been since the late '80s.

Especially when he spent the four interim years purging the party of anyone not 100% faithful to him, and publicly upping the aggressive rhetoric.

Everyone outside the US who was paying attention saw this coming. If we were blindsided, it was only in how much he’s been able to get away with so quickly; but we knew what most of his goals were.

This headline is subtly dismissive.

“Angry” and “right now” both suggest a transient state. That’s not what we’re seeing.

“Canada has finally had enough of the USA” would be a more apt title; or “Canada reaches its breaking point.”

Alongside of the #Never51 hashtag is an almost equally frequent #NeverGoBack. Canada, as a nation, as a people, are making the decision to go their own way, and never be so beholden to any country as we have been to the USA since 1959.

Never. Go. Back.

Lying evil Canada-hating separatist promises lies.

Nope. @JohnnyCanck has a good explanation of what just happened, but some other info to add.

We’re heading into a federal election soon, and the Conservative Party (right of the Democrats, and infused with a handful of Trump-level nutbars) held a solid lead for several months. When Trudeau announced he was stepping down, followed by Trump’s tarriffs, the lead shrunk to roughly the margin of error.

Carney is fairly conservative for the Liberal party - he was appointed to lead the Bank of Canada by a (very!) Conservative PM, and then went on to head the Bank of England. He’s a money manager for the rich, which is concerning, but also might draw some of the centrists back from the extreme right.

There’s a fair chance that our next government will - again - be a minority, which will require the collaboration of parties, and often is when the most good gets done. Or we might get a CPC/Poilievre majority, in which case we’ll be sucking up to Trump like a vacuum for four years.

Ambassador for Canada to the USA. :-D

But they look so good on raised, coal-rolling trucks with balls. /s

I’m Canadian, and I plan to never visit the USA again.

Ever.

There is no “…until” for me. The world without the US is easily big enough for me.

Two places I always wanted to see were New Orleans and Hawaii. The latter might end up breaking away, but New Orleans is probably off my list forever.

So we’ve apparently committed to buying 88 of these things. What direction out of the contract we have, and what are the consequences?

I get your point, but what is needed is for Canada to be the adult in the room.

True enough, but we can get stopgap gen 4.5 fighters at about half the price of the F-35, and with a vastly lower operational cost.

Get a fleet of Gripen Es, and run them in parallel with our existing Hornets, replacing the Hornets as they age out over the next decade or so. By then the new GCAP fighter should be in full production.

A lot of people - including me - instinctively say “good, let’s make it the four eyes and exclude the US.”

But really, we need to do away with the x-eyes program entirely, in its current form.

Shared intelligence is great, but the biggest advantage to 5Eyes has always been that it indirectly allows countries to spy on their own citizens. It’s invasive, illegal bullshit that needs to stop.

Screw this “waiting another 10-15 years.” We need to join the GCAP program, and get seriously active.

Lead time is necessarily immense, but we could both shorten it and improve the end product.

“Waiting for someone else to develop” has been a symptom of Canada’s Aerospace industry since the Arrow was shitcanned, and has crept into our national subconscious stream. We need to attack that attitude.

He’d be OK with that.

Sell them to Cuba.

I think Canada needs to accept a stopgap measure - the Gripen, Typhoon, Rafale, or Super Hornet - and dive headfirst into GCAP. FCAS is tempting as well, but GCAP is farther along and the countries are probably closer in goals to Canada.

“What’s the point?” The point is to seize power and get rich.

They will destroy whatever they want or need in order to become rich and powerful.

Sorry, but this is pathetic.

edit To be clear, celebrity boxing matches for charity are a common, fun thing. The head coaches of two rival sports teams, or the mayors of different cities do this sort of thing. Sometimes as part of a friendly rivalry when trade negotiations are getting tense, sure.

But the US is declaring war on us. The time for fun and games with the US is over. We deal with them politically, diplomatically, and economically; and as coldly as possible.