2025 03 05: Truck travelling a highway near Ottawa this morning with a banner on the tailgate: “We are Canadian. Thank Trudeau. Fuck Trump.”
@RodKahx:
So rumours a swirling that Trump will end the tariffs soon.
It’s a stock market heist America and you are all paying for some criminals to get rich.
@JasonPYYC:
Harper endorsed Trump. Harper cheered Trump winning.
Nobody should listen to Harper about anything concerning MAGA Pierre
@JasonOnTheDrums:
Today, two things became painfully obvious:
- Trudeau demonstrated how a real leader stands up to a bully.
- Danielle Smith and @PierrePoilievre caved to pressure—neither are true leaders, and neither can be trusted.
Thank you Trudeau.
@johnhtran.bsky.social:
One day after triggering a trade war, Trump is already scrambling for a way out. Markets are sliding, prices are rising, and now his team is floating a “compromise” with Canada & Mexico. So much for the tough guy act.
@cougsta.bsky.social:
Let him squirm. I’ll continue to boycott all things American until that bag of chud knuckles is out of the White House (and preferably in prison.)
Yes, Trump, you utter idiot, Canadians are sneaking across the border and stealing your factories.
Listening to Trudeau’s presser and all I can think is thank Gawd we don’t have a Conservative federal government. They’d sell us to the GOP in a heartbeat.
The trade war has begun.
adjusts beret
@andersaslund.bsky.social:
How sad to hear a U.S. president standing lying and abusing, and the republicans cheering and applauding.
religion really fucks humans up. many repuglicans (in canada too) are freakishly extreme Zionist Mass Murder Mass Thieving Mass Raping Christian
@WeimaDiane:
Absolutely no more negotiating with Trump or anyone else in the GOP!
Roman Sheremeta@rshereme Mar 3, 2025:
Former President of Poland Lech Walesa wrote the following letter to Donald Trump:
Your Excellency, Mr. President,
We watched your conversation with President Zelensky with fear and distaste. It is insulting that you expect Ukraine to show gratitude for U.S. material aid in its fight against russia.
Gratitude is owed to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who have been shedding their blood for over 11 years to defend the free world’s values and their homeland, attacked by Putin’s russia.
How can the leader of a country symbolizing the free world fail to recognize this?
The Oval Office atmosphere during your conversation reminded us of interrogations by the Security Services and Communist courts. Back then, prosecutors told us they held all the power while we had none.
They stripped us of our freedoms for refusing to cooperate or express gratitude for our oppression. We are shocked that President Zelensky was treated in a similar manner.
History shows that when the U.S. distanced itself from democratic values and its European allies, it ultimately endangered itself.
Wilson understood this in 1917 when the U.S. joined WWI. Roosevelt knew it after Pearl Harbor in 1941—realizing that defending America meant fighting in both the Pacific & Europe.
Without President Reagan and U.S. financial support, the Soviet empire’s collapse would not have been possible. Reagan called the USSR an “Empire of Evil” and confronted it decisively.
We won, and today, his statue stands in Warsaw, facing the U.S. Embassy.
Mr. President, military and financial aid cannot be equated with the blood shed for Ukraine’s independence and the freedom of Europe and the world.
Human life is priceless. Gratitude is due to those who sacrifice their blood and freedom—something self-evident to us, former political prisoners of the communist regime under Soviet russia.
We urge the U.S. to uphold the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which established a direct obligation to defend Ukraine’s borders in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons.
These guarantees are unconditional—nowhere do they suggest such aid is a mere economic transaction.
Signed,
Lech Walesa, former political prisoner, Solidarity leader, President of Poland
@amprincipe:
What a powerful, beautifully written letter. I fear it falls on deaf ears.
@CarrieBartelt:
Lech Walesa was a plumber b4 becoming president of Poland. He is a hero. Zelinsky was a comedian before becoming the President of Ukraine. He is a hero. Donald Drumpf was a reality actor and convicted (34 counts) felon before stealing the 2024 US election. He was never a hero.
One of the most powerful cartoons I’ve seen. My apologies, I have not been able to find out who the cartoonist is.
@OrbitStudios:
Can you imagine if Trudeau just broke Trump today?
@NewsWire_US 3:26 PM · Mar 4, 2025
!!! Commerce Secretary Lutnick: Trump may roll back Canada and Mexico tariffs tomorrow
@TheBreakdownAB:
We won that quickly?
@marnie1616:
Trudeau broke him with one speech
@perreaux.bsky.social:
We’re all doing our best to attribute this mess to one out-of-control leader, but the thing that nags me for the longer term is that we basically can’t trust the U.S. anymore.
What good are trade deals, mutual defense deals, water treaties, etc. etc. with a country capable of lurching like this?
@emmettmacfarlane.com:
CNN is covering Trudeau’s presser live. That’s a big deal.
At this point, why does anyone think there’s anything beneath Trump? He’s an evil madman, and the entire world should be prepared for the absolute worst.
I’m deadly serious. No one thought we’d be where we are today, with the US becoming the greatest threat to the democratic world.
I mean it. If anything he’s done so far has been unimaginable to you, toss out the unimaginable.
Holding onto power past 2028.
An invasion of Canada.
World War III.
Another Holocaust.
All have shifted from ‘unimaginable’ to ‘possible’ in our new reality. We fail to prepare at our peril.
Watch Trudeau speak directly to Trump during blistering speech by CNN, March 4, 2025
Over 4 million views and 62,000 comments in 6 hours, as of 4:40pm on March 4, 2025. I’ve never been more proud of and grateful for Justin Trudeau, and my country. Never will I be American. I will die defending our country and my fellow Canadians from Monster Orange and his cowardly Nazis.
@Schnabelhund:
I like how he switches to really simple English the moment he addresses Trump directly.
@robertmondoux6466:
Imagine a Country’s leader speaking articulately and coherently with actual facts and reason – and in TWO languages.
@babyktchr7662:
Holy crap. This is what a grown adult leading a country sounds like.
@poetryforever4438:
No shouting no bullying no lying. Just intelligent speaking.
The above clip is also worth watching, Trudeau was asked what he thought of Trump’s abuse of Zelensky last friday. I also stand with Zelensky and his people.
Memel Pound:
I don’t care who you vote for, but if you stand with Trump, Putin and Netanyahu you are an enemy of Canada.
Polish Cold War hero Walesa writes to Trump expressing ‘horror’ at Zelenskiy spat by by Alan Charlish and Pawel Florkiewicz, Reuters, March 3, 2025
@krassenstein:
Scenes from Ontario, Canada….
“Making America Great Again” by making the world hate us and not buy from us.
This is American liquor, produced in Red States, that has been ordered to be taken off the shelves across Ontario.
@JasonPYYC:
Never forget.
When an enemy combatant had our backs against the wall.
Pierre Poillievre attacked his own country.
Fuck that MAGA traitor.