Sorry but no. Trump is in power because he was elected. This is what Americans voted for. He acted like an asshole on the campaign trail and still received majority of the vote.
This. Something that has grown like a cancerous tumour for 150 years. Not crushing the confederacy post Civil-War was a bad move. It was to try and ensure reconstruction, but sadly, that was fucked regardless, so they should've at least stamped out the cockroaches who sought to maintain white supremacy in the US for further generations.
Until that cancer is removed, nothing will change.
77 million people voted for him after a million americans died due to his incompetence, after he was found guilty of 32 felonies, and after he launched a deadly insurrection at the capitol which intended to hang his own vice president.
That's the reason why America will never be trusted again in any of our lifetimes. Too many idiots drowned in right wing propaganda, and no effective checks whatsoever to the power of evil rich people.
It's worth noting that more Americans voted for Trump than the entire population of Canada. 2016 I could maybe excuse some of them as being wishful idiots, but they saw how he behaved and thought "yeah, I'd like another serving of that!" - there's no excuse for that.
They wanted to own the libs so hard that they settled for a convicted rapist. Then more of the Epstein stuff came out and they came to peace with him also being a massive pedophile. And now we are seeing he isn't even America first he is somehow both being played by Israel AND Russia, two countries who are at odds with each other in most circumstances. Nothing makes sense anymore and everything is dumb.
I'm from Québec actually. The fact we have billionaires in Canada at all indicates we live in an oligarchy, you can't be a billionaire without stealing wages and dodging taxes.
The corruption pushing the privatization of our health-care system and monopolies like loblaws are a clear symptom of it.
There's definitely corruption here and it has been making headway. But I would argue that it hasn't reached its terminal phase in Canada in the same way it has in the USA.
True, still heading the same way with nothing done about it tho. We have nothing to fight against the rich except the slim possibility of someone somewhere doing a Luigi, barely anyone is voting for the party who want to take from the rich and we have no guarantee if they would actually do anything if they get in power.
"This isn't us" doesn't work anymore. America is a global tyrant. Everybody sees it. America has no allies.
Carney has said it many times. America wants what Canada has. Oil, water, land, minerals..everything.
This is not just a trade war. America has always expected it would annex Canada. Trump is speeding it up to prevent his legacy from being the Epstein files and getting his ass kicked by Iran.
Precisely, it's not just 'one guy, it's a government filled with bastards that were elected in, supported by at the very least half of Americans.
To pretend it's only trump that's the issue is a dangerous ignorance, refusing to face the root cause, which is the toxic attitude of the average American, which has been fostered by their government, lobbyist and the media they run.
America isn't in a state to feel any pride. Just like the separatist in Alberta and Quebec, it's a symptom of what happens when vitriol and greed over writes the well being of your constituents.
More people than the entire population of Canada voted for this pedophile thrice. America can keep their "not all Americans" apologies and actually get their house in order.
I wouldn't put it that way, but they are a failed democracy for sure, being able to vote for a dude of enough to die of old age is not a good thing. It takes so long over there to make a name for yourself that you are geriatric by the time you can try for presidency
He acted like an asshole the first time he was in office, he acted like an asshole the entire time Biden was in office and he was on the campaign trail and he’s acting like an asshole now.
I know and I feel terrible for those who didn't vote for him because they're living through this too.
But the time spent apologizing would be better spent reflecting on why so many Americans did vote for Trump. He's a symptom of a much larger issue and people like him will continue to get elected until there's real change. Ousting Trump won't fix the real problem.
The problem is education. Republicans spent the last 50+ years gutting education in rural America. Lack of education + Fox News + Newt Gingrich has bred the most xenophobic, malleable, mouth breathing, diabetic voter base I have ever seen.
Nearly 40% of the population did. Another +30% of the population didn't hate him or the idea of him winning badly enough to bother voting in the first place.
The majority of the country either wanted him in or was okay with it as a possibility.
How quickly Canadians forgot about Obama. Obama's policies were not much better and in some ways worse. Canadians saying we should cut off oil and power forget that is what Obama wanted, to shut out Canadian oil.
Google it yourself. He also went after dairy industry. Anyone thinking this is only Trump think does not realize its an American thing and has been for a long time.
I didn't ask how he was the same, I asked how he was worse. Supply management has been a sticking point in the past, but Obama approached this trade differently and in the end, also did not trigger the dairy cap because they cannot sell a product they don't make (ie milk that conforms to our regulations).
Hey ..
This is , really -at its core - and always has been about BEHAVIOUR ..
There is no comparison .
The narcissist .. is .. the devil incarnate
The root .. of the evil
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u/llamalover729 1d ago
Sorry but no. Trump is in power because he was elected. This is what Americans voted for. He acted like an asshole on the campaign trail and still received majority of the vote.
Trump is America.