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President Donald Trump mocked transgender people in front of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose child identifies as nonbinary, during an Oval Office meeting in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday that was intended to focus on trade relations but instead became a showcase of Trump’s familiar culture war politics.

The meeting, held in the presence of reporters, aimed to emphasize renewed cooperation between the two countries, which remain deeply economically intertwined. But as The Independent reported, it “devolved into a political rally disguised as a routine press availability.” Trump repeatedly veered off topic to attack Democrats, the media, and transgender people, boasting that under his leadership, “We have strong borders. We have no men in women’s sports. We’re not going to take your child away and change the sex of your child.”

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[-] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Tolerating Nazis has historically never worked.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Domestically? Yes.

Internationally, we're not Britain letting the Nazis build up, we're fucking Czechoslovakia just praying they don't decide to take the Sudetenland. The EU is probably Britain in this analogy.

[-] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Also:

Europe pls send help

[-] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

Right we should piss him off so he can fuck over the rest of our economy before we can transition our supply chains elsewhere. Brilliant.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Or just straight up invade to "save us from our evil communist government".

[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

I'm convinced they are planning some sort of annexation/invasion anyway. They'll just find a reason at some point. It can be anything. We have water and plenty of natural resources that would be good for American billionaires to own.

Just look at what Trump requires of Ukraine in order to help them. They're gonna make some bullshit up, like our resources are critical to their national security, or something like that. It's good to delay this as much as possible and not antagonize them - maybe they'll be busy invading Venezuela or Mexico first - but it's probably going to happen regardless.

[-] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago

They didn't lose any time. It's been a while now they've complained of drugs entering the US from Canada.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

It's not impossible, but I don't think this government plans all that much in general. And, they'd need to massage the public discourse for a bit first.

[-] yes_this_time@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I'm pretty sure the UK GDP was comparable to Germanies pre WW2 if that's what you are referring to. I agree with your point though. If I was Carney I wouldn't take it head on, but instead work behind the scenes to better position Canada.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Pre-WWI maybe. Wiemar Germany isn't know for it's awesome economy.

Which is why Britain won despite letting them build up and prepare for a decade or whatever.

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