Lake America: Trump’s Trade War With Canada Gets Even Dumber

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And I think about another big weekend that happened in September in 2008, and that was when on Friday, Merrill Lynch, Merrill Lynch was purchased by Bank of America. Lehman Brothers was allowed to collapse. And on Monday, I went to work at Merrill Lynch with to a headline of the newspaper that said Merrill is bought by Bank of America. It was very surreal. But, you know, both candidates suspended their presidential campaigns in 2008. And up until that point, it had been very neck and neck. And I and I honestly think that round of headlines is what swung the election in. In favor of Barack Obama and not John McCain. So I think that the timing of this is definitely giving me fuck you vibes. Carney knows the game that he's playing, and he knows that Canada may not have as much weight to throw around as the U.S., but it does have like access to like jujitsu pain points that it can just, you know, maybe just a little pinch right here can like bring a big man down. And I think that's what Canada is betting on in this. And, you know, whether somebody is going to get into Donald Trump's seat or not, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't Trump's ear and talk sense into him and say, you know, maybe Natalie Harp. Maybe I was going to say, does human printer have that kind of pull? Do you see what's happening here? I got to say, though, there's something about the degree to which Canadians are. It's like I see this with my kids. It's like once they have the permission structure to start criticizing each other, like when mom and dad are like, OK, go for it. Not that we ever do that. But it's just the pile on is it must be so cathartic to be Canadian for this brief moment. I mean, maybe it's cathartic to be a Canadian at all moments. But in this particular moment, when they can really go after the United States and say the things that I think the rest of the globe wants to say, Doug Ford is the premier of Ontario, because that's how Canada split up, for those of you who don't know. And he has been really like in it. He has been very much marinating in in telling America to fuck off. Let's just listen to one or two clips from the great Doug Ford. It could be chronic migraine. Fifteen or more headache days a month, each lasting four hours or more. Botox on a botulinum toxin A prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. Alert your doctor right away as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems or muscle weakness can be signs of a life threatening condition. Side effects may include allergic reactions, neck and injection site pain, fatigue and headache. Allergic reactions can include rash, welts, asthma symptoms and dizziness. 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Not just kiss my ass, but my ass is big, and you can kiss all of it. Yeah, that's the meanest thing I've seen a Canadian say outside of a hockey arena. Normally, all of their aggression is contained to a hockey match. But I think what's interesting about Ford is that he's a little bit of a Trumpy figure as well. He tells it like it is. Straight talker. Yeah, he's unvarnished. And I think the people that are fans, I'm not an expert on Canadian politics, so please- I'm sure. I'm like, that's awesome that you knew that. Yeah, no, I was at Gawker when his, or I was at Gawker Media when his brother was busted for smoking crack. So yeah, crash course in the Ford family. But he is like a pugnacious guy. His appeal is that he is unvarnished and not practiced. And so it's a sort of evenly matched situation. He's kind of a Canadian Donald Trump type. Okay, let's not insult our neighbors. Yeah, well, he's not afraid to step up and say, kiss my big ass. Well, and look, as pure, as juvenile as that may all seem, I do genuinely think that's the way you get Donald Trump to rethink his position. I mean, look at his Truth Social account since this all started happening. On Monday, he posted Canada's unemployment rate is now at 10% and rapidly rising. Just for clarification, it's at a two-year low of 6.4%. Canadians feel entitled, and yet we don't need Canada. They need us. They do 95% of their business with America, with us. It's the exact opposite. It's actually 70%. But also, as we just discussed, we do need Canada. They're a major trading partner, and some of the key Senate races that are going to determine the balance of power in November revolve around some of Canada's largest trading partners in the United States. You know, I will say, there is the immediate lesson and the immediate sort of psychology and we're seeing play out right now, Aaron. But I do think the tension and the sort of like pugnacious attitude Canada's taking towards the United States will have effects that last longer than the Trump administration. And I was reading JBL, Jonathan Velas, Bulwark, who, true to form, was very pessimistic about this moment and makes the case that, like, this isn't just about Trump. This is about America ceding its role. As the leader of the free world, that it is not just about Trump. It is about the country that elected him twice. And that it's not just that we don't have a leadership position. It's that there are figures that now recognize that the world needs to be protected from America. I'll read a little excerpt. Not only does the free world no longer include America, the free world is organizing to defend itself from us. Mark Carney understood that the rules-based order which America had organized after World War II was not going to be protected from America. And that the United States was now a post-liberal predator. Not because of a single bad orange man, but because tens of millions of Americans wanted this change. I'm inclined to not be alarmist, but I actually genuinely think that we might not recover from the Trump years. Because who's to say another Trump won't be elected in four years or eight or 12? And how do you sort of account for that if you're the rest of the free democracy-loving world? You forsake America. Move on. I mean, and if past is prologue, and I don't want to, you know, break whatever the internet rule is about comparing things to Hitler. But, you know, before Germany had the rise of an extremist far right that resulted in a genocidal disaster, they had a sort of Donald Trump-like figure who was in charge, you know, during World War I. And he set them on a path for economic ruin that rolled into the conditions of the United States. And so, you know, I think that's a necessary for Nazism to rise. And my fear of what right now is that we're not in Germany in the 1930s. We're in Germany in, like, 1920s. And that the disaster of ceding our place as leader of the free world and the disaster of putting us on a path for domestic strife en masse for tens and tens of millions of people as a whole is a disaster. And I think that's a disaster. And I only very rich people have any money. So getting us in a position for, like, hyperinflation, you know, there are all of these pieces being moved into positions where it feels like that is the direction we're going. And what I'm really afraid of is what happens when the irresponsible behavior and reckless behavior of the Trump administration ends up reverberating for long after he's gone. And I know that, you know, there's a lot of, like, joking around about, like, oh, yeah, he can't live forever. And that's true. But the echoes of this are going to be things that people are picking up for a generation, at least. And it's it's very frightening. I'm not I mean, I think that if I were a Canadian watching all this happen, I would have the same attitude about Americans. And I would I would think, man, there's a lot of real shitty people there. But I think the bigger danger is what happens when those shitty people lose even more than they've lost. And I think that's already lost and become even more desperate and angry and willing to look out, look for scapegoats anywhere. Like we are on a path to something that is so, so dark. And I don't I don't think that it's unfixable. I don't think that there's no hope. There's absolutely hope. There has to be. You have to operate as though there's hope. But I think that Canada could end up swooping in here and become like the hero, like the Deus Ex maple syrup. Can they can they take over the United States? That's my question. You know, that would be kind of cool. They subsidize artists in Canada. You know, how many territories are there in Canada? Can we become one provinces? um there are i'm not sure exactly how many or how many provinces are we don't even know no we don't even know but i wouldn't that be interesting wouldn't that be interesting i don't want canada to take us over but i'm saying like i do canadian canadian french canadian oh yeah but like quebecois french no because okay yeah no i'm not i'm not going to be able to do that oh that was french um the i think that when i say canada could emerge the hero here i don't mean that they like you know mark carney rides in a white horse and like saves us all from ourselves but if elections in november swing really really wildly in the democrats way and it's clear that the finger was put on the scale then i think canada can kind of like they can take credit for ousting susan collins wouldn't that be rich pretty much like they can do what what generate what a generation of democratic candidates hasn't been able to do to this point which is get susan collins out of the senate um listen so i think it's i think that there is you know i have canadian friends i love them they're great i feel like i need to be the one saying sorry now this week because sorry sorry um also i love that doug ford called it a toque the bean like that's a canadian ism it's like a little little beanie it's like what we would call a beanie we call it we call it a beanie yeah yeah all right well i mean we've learned some things um one is mark carney could actually decide the balance of power in november of 2026 a toque is a beanie nobody knows how many provinces there are in canada but someone somewhere will find out on our behalf i say uh mark carney ain't no neville chamberlain keep punching mark that's what i say absolutely uh we are we are on team mark mark carney here at crooked media doug ford's got a big ass and he wants donald trump to kiss it i i just gotta say you know a broken clock when it comes to doug ford a broken clock and him telling donald trump to kick his ass our kisses are going to kick his ass is i'm for it right it's right twice a day yep aaron it is great to see you thank you for helping me get like slightly hysterical over this because it's worth it uh you should watch hysteria and subscribe to it on youtube as i do because it is worth every second oh and you should also subscribe to this channel or runaway country because you get stuff like this yeah banter you're the best let's go have some pancakes with canadian maple syrup i would love that i'll bring the poutine perfect i'll be in the toque we have an addendum to the important discussion that you just heard and that is aaron how many provinces canada has what is the magic number a big one oh they got 10 provinces and that is an embarrassing fact to not know as your neighbors to the south so i'm sorry i'm sorry we're sorry please make us the 11th bye bye hank joined bj's wholesale club the day he became a father of 30 i coach football now coach hank saves up to 25 off grocery store prices 30 pounds of pasta three cases of protein bars 75 sports drinks and that's just pre-game he knows teamwork and bj's knows savings this is your home coach home of the save join for just 20 at bj's.com slash mesquite and save 10 cents per gallon for six months open soon limited time offer new members only bj's home of the save your team just added its 67th ai tool and also your 67th security blind spot the good news the vanta agent works like a grc engineer in the background finding every app your team uses scoring the risk and drafting fixes for you vanta is the platform used by over 16 000 fast-moving companies like ramp cursor and harvey who are shaping the future with ai and staying ahead of ai risk get started at vanta.com