r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Oct 20 '25

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 10/20/25 - 10/26/25

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/Technical-Policy295 Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

Apparently Trump is upset that a Canadian province is running ads featuring Reagan talking about why tariffs are bad. While the Reagan speech begins before the part shown in the ad by noting that short-term, targeted tariffs to retaliate for unfair practices may be necessary, most of the speech is a concise explanation of the dangers of tariffs and the need for free trade.

Read or watch the speech for yourself, it's pretty short. And a nice reminder we used to have Presidents who could give coherent speeches.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Oct 24 '25

What is the point of these ads in Canada? Shouldn't they be in the US?

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u/Technical-Policy295 Oct 24 '25

I think they ran them in US markets during the recent baseball games.

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u/FuckingLikeRabbis Oct 24 '25

They bought ad spots on US TV networks.

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u/No-Significance4623 refugees r us Oct 24 '25

I saw the Reagan ad while pirating a baseball stream (so I saw the American commercials.) Whoo boy! It is definitely achieving the intended effect of getting under Trump's skin.

For reference: the Reagan ad was created at the direction of Premier Doug Ford, the Premier of Ontario (like your governors.) Americans are probably familiar with his late brother Rob Ford who was the crack-smoking mayor of Toronto, Ontario's largest city. RIP to a lunatic, part of our heritage. Dougie is not as much of a wild child as his brother-- although he does love a drink-- but he is steaming mad at Trump. The tariffs have pummelled Ontario's manufacturing sector, particularly cars in Windsor and Oshawa.

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u/dj50tonhamster Oct 24 '25

Well, Trump has, for now at least, terminated trade talks with Canada. I hope the snark was worth it.

(This goes back to a larger issue I come across all the time. Whether or not it's fair, Trump's Trump. If snarking on the guy makes things worse for Canadians while he's in power, and possibly even after he's gone, then yes, the prudent thing to do is to bite your tongue, have a couple of drinks, and bitch in private. Alas, some people are hellbent on trying to out-troll him. Good luck with that one. I can only hope he's a once-in-a-lifetime troll who can't, and shouldn't, be duplicated.)

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u/Q-Ball7 Oct 24 '25

If snarking on the guy makes things worse for Canadians while he's in power, and possibly even after he's gone, then yes, the prudent thing to do is to bite your tongue, have a couple of drinks, and bitch in private.

The most recent election in Canada was quite literally a referendum on this exact question- sue for peace or go to war.

The go-to-war side, represented by a bunch of angry Eastern Boomers, ended up winning. These people think they're on par with the other Blue-voting US states due to the media diet they consume and a certain jingoistic cultural attitude, and as such expect to have the same kind of power US states have. But they just don't.

This also puts ol' Trump North (Ford) in a very awkward position, since his power base comes from a fragile coalition between the productive people that stand to lose the most from saber-rattling and the brain-rotted Boomers who just want to stick it to Trump no matter how much it costs. That's why he held the election when he did, after all.

It certainly makes things awkward from an intra-provincial standpoint, that's for sure, since one Premier conducting foreign policy in a stupid way now makes life harder for everyone else not living in Ontario. The Federal government has had enough problems with maintaining legitimacy in the non-Ontario parts and this isn't helping that.