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Baitball Blogger

(49,870 posts)
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 09:12 AM Mar 24

Trump and MAGAS are showing the world the part which the racists tried so hard to hide [View all]

in America. And the World is responding. Charlie Angus from Canada just gave us a well-deserved bloody nose.

clipped from Occupy Democrats on Facebook:

BREAKING: Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus humiliates MAGA Secretary of State Marco Rubio for his reckless remarks — says that he "needs to be sent back to school" before really tearing in.

America has become the laughingstock of the world under Donald Trump...

"Well, I think Marco Rubio probably needs to be sent back to school because when you say that someone doesn’t have a right to have a country, that’s an act of war," Angus told MeidasTouch.

He was referring to Rubio's support of Trump's idiotic demand that Canada become America's "51st state." Supposedly, the disastrous tariffs are an effort to coerce Canada into surrendering its sovereignty but there is simply no scenario in which they'll agree to do that.

"When you rip up arbitrarily trade agreements, and threaten, and say you're going to break a country, that’s an act of war," said Angus. "And Canadians have responded in kind."

"The boycott that Canada has launched against the United States is punishing," he continued. "We were told in January a 10% drop in Canadian travel to the United States would cost 140,000 jobs. We’re seeing at least a 40% drop now..."

"...and we’re hearing these nightmare stories of ICE detention centers, of people who are traveling across the border to fix their visa or that, that have been strip-searched, chained, and kept in deplorable conditions," he went on.

"Is Donald Trump really trying to destroy the tourism industry in the United States?" asked Angus. "And then like three days before St. Patrick's Day picks a fight with the Irish of all people? You're going to pick a fight with the Irish on the eve of St. Patrick's day, throwing 200% tariffs and then 200% tariffs on France?"
"I mean that's the last bottle of bourbon that'll be sold in a generation in Europe so what we're really picking up here is not just the rising level of resistance in Canada — and I've been on a tour through the industrial heartland of Canada and the resistance is so much stronger than I could have even dreamed — but we're picking up now the rest of the world is watching Canada and following our strategy..." he said.

"...which is just disengage and to disengage economically," he continued. "So the United States has become a much weaker force on the stage of the world. If people aren't buying products, if people aren't traveling, if people aren't willing to buy anything American right now that's hurting so many American businesses who are basically collateral damage in Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance's idiotic campaign to please the MAGA voters."

"Its hurting us to some degree but it's right now, we think the impact on the average American business that has always had good relations with people in their markets, they're getting punched in the face right now because of what Donald Trump's doing."

Angus is absolutely right. America gains nothing from these destructive trade wars. All Trump is accomplishing is the immiseration of his own people. Meanwhile, our adversaries are starting to look like far more stable trading partners to our former allies.

Soon, America will stand alone.

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It only makes sense when you admit that Trump hates Americans and wants to destroy the United States Walleye Mar 24 #1
Absolutely. He is acting like a president who hates America. Baitball Blogger Mar 24 #2
I know he would hate me if he met me, so I'm sure he would hate 3/4 of our fellow Americans Walleye Mar 24 #4
Trump loathes Americans. And America. Irish_Dem Mar 24 #6
And that completely gives us a right to hate his guts. Walleye Mar 24 #11
I agree - Everything the Orange Turd does Lokee11 Mar 24 #9
Yes, It's Retribution For Himself WiVoter Mar 24 #13
And Putin has been in his ear for 30 years, feeding his paranoia. Walleye Mar 24 #15
Yup WiVoter Mar 24 #16
Quickest way for world to thwart Trump is not retaliatory tariffs but just stop buying our stuff or visiting. dutch777 Mar 24 #3
I have several Canadian friends Johnny2X2X Mar 24 #5
I just said the same thing to someone here in the US on a green card. Irish_Dem Mar 24 #7
I suspect the big problem here is that Trump set up quotas for his goons. So they are not being Baitball Blogger Mar 24 #10
I think Trump has made it clear that the law no longer applies to immigration Johnny2X2X Mar 24 #12
I remember when I used to stand tall & hold my head up high because I was an American. William769 Mar 24 #8
Bullies never understand when people fight back... Wounded Bear Mar 24 #14
Now we're a shit hole country. nt Hotler Mar 24 #17
Disrespecting our allies while making kissy face with Putin surfered Mar 24 #18
Do you have a link? oldmanlynn Mar 24 #19
Occupy from facebook Baitball Blogger Mar 24 #20
Careful, Charlie. Our childish president might put out a Truth Social post calling you "Liddle Charlie". tanyev Mar 24 #21
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