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The decision by the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, this week to resign as head of the Liberal party has set in motion a leadership race against the backdrop of a looming general election, which will be held amid political turmoil triggered by Donald Trump’s “America first” economic nationalism. It has also given Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, an opportunity to inject himself into yet another country’s political turmoil.

Since Trudeau’s resignation on Monday, Musk has posted repeatedly about Canadian politics on X – the platform formerly known as Twitter he bought in 2022 for $44bn. He has praised clips of Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada’s Conservative party, while relishing in Trudeau’s downfall and engaging with rightwing Canadian influencers.

“Girl, you’re not the governor (sic) of Canada anymore, so doesn’t matter what you say,” Musk tweeted in response in the middle of the night on Tuesday.

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[-] buttfarts@lemy.lol 86 points 3 days ago

This guy is gonna be the whole world's problem until we collectively shun him into Russia or something.

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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The problem (well one of them) with billionaires, is that you can't really "exile" them. They exist outside of national boundaries, and are sort of nations in and of themselves. This is why they don't bother following the laws of the nation they reside in.

I'm not sure it would even be possible to do this unless we could literally strip him of all of his wealth. Which I imagine would prove difficult (but I'm all for it).

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

The west sanctions oligarchs all of the time. The problem is they never sanction their own, because the rich own the politicians with the power to do it.

[-] poo@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

I basically just pray every day that someone assassinates him, that frowning bloated pale moron is a stain on humanity

[-] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

It’s almost like there really is a global elite causing tons of problems, and they’ve spent the last +8 years to dupe one side. That way, when it is true, the people on the left look crazy, and we continue an unnecessary class war while a bunch of selfish people destroy the human race so a line go brrr or whatever.

I fucking hate it here, and I have a reasonably good life. I’m tired. Everyone is lying and screaming at one another. And there’s no truth. This is all done for humans to jock for power rather than see each other as one species.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago
[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 days ago

God JT needs to give election Canada teeth before he goes, because right now if musk decides to come in and fuck with the election and prop up a party, there isn't much that they will do about it.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

I think he should cause it’s great for the nation, but why would he (like personally)

All this time people just kept asking him to leave and now he is leaving… and we get to find out why people hated Trudeau and how those problems will persist after him.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Because he presumably isn't so vindictive, and because he presumably cares about the nation, hopefully?

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 days ago

The dumbfuck doesn't even know the difference between prime minister and governor.

He should just sit this one out.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think he says that on purpose, to perpetuate the trope Trump started.

Either way, people in Canada have such a low opinion of him and Trump that I think the more he speaks favourably of PP, the more Canadians are going to turn away from him. Since Elmo can't support PP with a lot more than speech, I think he's likely to run his mouth a lot. I hope he does.

[-] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

We do have that maple maga crap, and Propaganda Pierre is doing all he can. Let's hope reason wins out over slogans and lies, remember Propaganda Pierre was housing minister under Harper

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

The governorbit is a swioe atTrudeau as the MAGA dipshits are calling Canada the 51st state.

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

He does it to troll.

[-] chuck@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago

Force him to pay his fair share of taxes ( not a tiny amount but a fair amount proportional to what he has extracted from the Canadian economy)

If he refuses Invalidate all patents this Muppet's companies previously enjoyed within Canada

Let competition flood in with copy cat rockets cars twitter and hell pay pal clones

[-] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

Also since he’s Canadian then should his right wing pro nazi comments cross the line, charge him for hate speech under Canadian laws

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago

At this point, simply making Musk pay his fair share in taxes is not enough in my opinion. The damage that he has done to this planet is immeasurable.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

He has no right to interfere with our politics. He chose to be american.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

I like the idea of naming some nasty disease after him. Maybe something involving shrunken genitals?

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 16 points 3 days ago

There's already Zuckerberg Rat Penis Syndrome.

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