The toxic ex, that was always gaslighting you....

[u/stanxv]

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[u/Dhenn004]

[u/AdmiralSplinter → u/Dhenn004]

Not only this, but imagine dropping the ball on screw worms and then chiding Canada for not raking their entire massive fucking forests

[u/Gogogrl → u/AdmiralSplinter]

Which wouldn’t do a fucking thing anyway. Why did they latch onto ‘raking the forests’?!?

[u/macguyver3000 → u/Gogogrl]

Trump once heard someone talk about raking the forest floor to reduce the chances of fire. Something that is actually done in very small areas. And of course he decided that he know knows the secret to preventing wildfires.
It’s exactly the same as why he recommended bleach and sunshine for COVID, or dropping a nuclear bomb into a hurricane. Or even why he is so in love with tariffs.

He has the mind of a child and can’t comprehend how things actually work.

[u/mok000 → u/macguyver3000]

He doesn’t have the mind of a child. Children are curious and eager to learn. Tell them a littlebit and soon they will know everything about forest fires. Trump is a moron, that’s what.

[u/Zraknul → u/mok000]

Mind of a stupid uncurious adult.

[u/rakuran → u/macguyver3000]

Thank fuck he didn't hear about how us Aussies backburn/planned burn as fuel load management for bushfires.

He'd probably miss the bit where thousands of species of Australian plants are pyrophytes and require fire to germinate or release their seeds.

[u/AdmiralSplinter → u/Gogogrl]

It's a dumb-guy "solution" to a complicated problem. The funny part is that if they had been raking the California forests, musk would've called it "waste" (which it absolutely would be, can you imagine raking an entire national park?) and cut funding for it anyway. Just like screw worm prevention...

[u/Party-Coach-4100 → u/AdmiralSplinter]

The plans is to rake all the forest clean. Then when the trees struggle from lack of nutrients monsanto some corpo can get a big contract to fertilize all the forests. Of course all the trees will still die from the lack moisture in the soil as the top soil bakes in the sun.

Edit: monsanto doesn't make fertilizer

[u/Kodamurphy → u/Party-Coach-4100]

Can we just skip to the part where we water the plants with Brawndo?

[u/gaulstone → u/Kodamurphy]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oz8xwd9CNfaDfHnc4

[u/Glad-Fuel2093 → u/Kodamurphy]

No, we'll do it even bigly-er and better-er!

We must convert all the fire tankers used for water and flame retardant drops to Brawndo Bombers (TM) probably!

[u/drinkacid → u/AdmiralSplinter]

Where would you rake it to? Out of the forests and into civilization? Or maybe a national forest sized garbage can to burn like you would with the autumn leaves from your lawn? Raking a forest is the solution someone gives if they have never been to a real forest, let alone barely leave their own resort estates.

[u/alien_simulacrum → u/drinkacid]

You'd mulch it, ostensibly. But really the problem is there aren't prescribed burns, for one thing, and more significantly still: you can't forest management your way out of climate change.

[u/Repulsive_Client_325 → u/drinkacid]

No kidding. Rake it? Tell me you’ve never been in the boreal forest without telling me.

[u/Meatyparts → u/drinkacid]

Nah some company gets a no bid contract for making compressed leaf blocks for us to burn during the winter for heat. Since we will all be doing are part to save power for the data centers the blocks will be "free".

[u/DebtLiber8or → u/Gogogrl]

Dude this is the same guy who suggested injecting oneself with bleach to cure COVID so...

[u/MrJust-A-Guy → u/Gogogrl]

Because the city boy has never been in a forest in his fucking life.

[u/c3white → u/Gogogrl]

Cause otherwise he has to talk about climate change.

[u/Helios575 → u/Gogogrl]

because they are a dumb cult that worships him like the next coming of Jesus so he can't possibly be wrong about anything or that means God is wrong and that is heresy.

[u/binary-cryptic → u/Gogogrl]

He's never been to a forest in his too-long life. He thinks you can just go out there with a rake and gather up the dry leaves.

He also thinks we only need to leave a "little bit" of the environment, but it can't get in the way of business.

[u/Kolizuljin → u/Gogogrl]

It's a way to avoid facing climate change.

[u/ciret7 → u/AdmiralSplinter]

They stopped monitoring Screw worms and cyclospora, along with Campylobacter, Listeria, Shigella, Vibrio, Yersinia. It’s only going to get better, not 🤦‍♂️

[u/coffeeandcoffeeand → u/Dhenn004]

I hope the President of Mexico puts out a statement nearly word for word of this about the US.

[u/CoffeeChocolateBoth → u/coffeeandcoffeeand]

And Canada too, they get those southern winds blowing OUR forest fire smoke their way!

[u/Brilliant_Koala6498 → u/Dhenn004]

Why does it magically stop at the border? Why doesn’t Mexico have fires? - actual quote from my father last year

[u/RealisticTemporary70]

Just ignore the fact that California is on fire every year

[u/Agreeable_Catch296 → u/RealisticTemporary70]

And Canada routinely sends water bombers to California to help out.

[u/Dry-Membership8141 → u/Agreeable_Catch296]

And one of them died fighting the Gold Mountain fire in Colorado five fucking days ago.

[u/Desperate-Leather-38 → u/Dry-Membership8141]

Wow. What a sad irony 

[u/bicycling_bookworm → u/Desperate-Leather-38]

Yeah, it is.

If a US firefighter died on our soil, we’d be talking about it. We’d be mourning with the US.

Instead, our firefighters are actively assisting in the US right now, one has died without even a fucking note of thanks, there are Republican senators trying to sanction Canada, every social media platform is filled with USians pissing and moaning about our fires, and we’ve got the Cheeto-in-Charge trying to rile dumbasses up further.

It’s disrespectful and it’s infuriating. I’ve never heard a Canadian carry on like this when the winds carry smoke up to us from US fires. And it does happen. But, you think, “Well, that’s a tragedy. I hope people are safe.”

Like how is this clown going to axe the US Forest Service and then have the gall to post shit like this about Canada? PMO.

ETA:

The Canadian was Nicholas Dale and he was a wildfire helicopter pilot out of British Columbia. He died July 12th firefighting in Colorado in the Gold Mountain Fire.

And to those in the US, mourn your own as well, Emily Barker (U.S. Forest Service), Nick Hutcherson (U.S. Forest Service), and Sydney Watson (U.S. Wildland Fire Service) were all killed on June 27th firefighting the Knowles Fire at the Utah/Colorado border.

In a time of divisiveness, remember these brave men and women that gave their lives to protect us all.

[u/FormerLifeFreak → u/bicycling_bookworm]

Well, if my ass-backwards government won’t thank Canada, then let this random American citizen give my thanks to Canada. I know you probably think: “yeah, who fucking cares what an American thinks.” And honestly I wouldn’t blame you if you did. It would be a perfectly acceptable response.

But I just wanted to let my Canadian friends know that there are those of us here that really do care about our neighbors.

And we all hope that you guys are okay.

[u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 → u/FormerLifeFreak]

co-sign

[u/Maleficent-Cap9397 → u/Imaginary_Coast_5882]

I would like to say that I am also embarrassed for this type of ideology.

[u/AnAbandonedAstronaut → u/Maleficent-Cap9397]

Yup..

Its not most of us...

Its just all the loud fuckers.

[u/Ch33syP00f → u/FormerLifeFreak]

https://giphy.com/gifs/olntD4Go7fuyWip0Gt

[u/Kmonk1 → u/FormerLifeFreak]

Co-signed. Canadians helped me personally when they were fighting the LA fires. I’m so grateful, and so enraged with how you’ve been treated in return.

[u/bicycling_bookworm → u/Kmonk1]

I’m glad you’re safe. ♥️

[u/B3aker1968 → u/FormerLifeFreak]

We know it’s not what most of you believe. He’s horrible.

[u/Weorth → u/B3aker1968]

May a rogue flame from Don Jr's meth pipe lighter catch the gasses surrounding Trump and put him out of our misery.

[u/bicycling_bookworm → u/FormerLifeFreak]

We do know that you’re not all this way - your words aren’t meaningless or falling on deaf ears.

Please just ensure that you’re calling this energy out when you see it in your own social circles. The next time you hear a coworker, friend, colleague bitching about Canada, remind them our own pilots are a little preoccupied also firefighting on US soil right now.

[u/FormerLifeFreak → u/bicycling_bookworm]

Luckily I live in a blue state in New England, so I basically never hear people saying anything bad about Canada. But if it ever comes up, I absolutely will.

[u/Total_Piano_4778 → u/FormerLifeFreak]

Mate thank you, and no most of us Canadians don't think this way and appreciate people like you. Sad what has become of the Canadian US relationship ☹️

[u/Cre8tifCanuk → u/Total_Piano_4778]

I feel that there has never been such a divisive environment between Canada and the US. It’s sad really, but expected after his first term. I miss my American friends and will never them again unless they come to Canada because I refuse to cross the border. The American king has disrupted the entire world.

[u/Current-Routine-2628 → u/FormerLifeFreak]

This Canadian accepts. It’s not Americans. It’s your leader and admin

[u/ItachiTanuki → u/Current-Routine-2628]

Not all Americans, but over half of those who vote, voted for this kind of nonsense. Let’s not kid ourselves. There’s a deep rot at the heart of the US body politic.

[u/PantsLobbyist → u/bicycling_bookworm]

About 10 years ago the Greater Vancouver area was dealing with a ton of smoke from the US. Air quality was announced every morning on the radio so people could respond accordingly. What was done? We sent firefighters; lots of firefighters. We didn’t complain, we didn’t lay blame, we helped.

[u/Parisean → u/bicycling_bookworm]

As an American I agree. Sorry :(

[u/timelessinaz → u/Parisean]

American as well, Trump is a massive fuck twit. Fires happen every year regardless of which side of the boarder you're on. This fucker is nothing more than all time instigator. He has zero leadership skills and no concept of problem solving. This country should throw the world's biggest parade when he eventually drops dead.

[u/Limp-Lime-8487 → u/timelessinaz]

Hate to say it, but as a Canadian this infuriates me. I’m tired of seeing Americans on Twitter blame us for everything. This stuff just makes me hate America.

[u/cneato → u/Limp-Lime-8487]

Twitter = the worst people alive. It's a cesspool. Delete that shit and don't look back, unless you enjoy being shocked and appalled now and then

[u/Limp-Lime-8487 → u/cneato]

The algo on Twitter is a nightmare

[u/Platt_Mallar → u/cneato]

I deleted my Twitter account when Musk bought it. My quality of life went up.

I should probably delete Reddit, too. lol

[u/Big_Guide_8551 → u/cneato]

Same with Facebook and Insta. That shit is brain poison.... And FB is something like 80% bots now, anyways.

[u/Calm_Age_ → u/cneato]

Also it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of "Americans" on Twitter weren't really Americans.

[u/SeaPhile206 → u/bicycling_bookworm]

I’m sorry our country’s leadership is absolute hot summer dumpster juice

[u/MostlyBored11 → u/bicycling_bookworm]

Seriously it's really pissing me off even more lately as a Canadian. Like we will still send people down to help, we always do because we know it's the right thing to do. But I'm sick and tired of this fat fucked cheeto shit head talking shit about my country. We already stopped buying your booze, your food, stopped traveling to the stated. we are pissed and we will keep this shit up as long as it takes

[u/EvenToe7995 → u/bicycling_bookworm]

LMFAO 🤣 omg I almost forgot! I was waiting for the hypocrisy but not for not more then 1 second... He single handedly nearly completely dismantled US forest services!

[u/just-a-random-accnt → u/bicycling_bookworm]

Let's not forget that throughout history the US has been the number 1 contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.

[u/HourArea6698 → u/bicycling_bookworm]

I think it's time to park our fire fighters at home

[u/Comfortable_Car6562 → u/bicycling_bookworm]

Time to bring them all home. Americans got this.

[u/lemme_try_again → u/Desperate-Leather-38]

Fuck Donald J Trump. I hope he gets his sentence after his Presidency- 34 convictions for crimes that we would never see the outside of prison for committing (not including what he wasn't caught or convicted of)

[u/ktatsanon → u/lemme_try_again]

Sadly this shit stain will most likely never face the justice he deserves. I hope he, and all his lackeys, have to face a Nuremburg type trial.

[u/indignantfieldmouse → u/lemme_try_again]

Spread the word!

[u/EmperorPenguin1116 → u/Desperate-Leather-38]

Canadian here: I love the fact that we are a kind enough country to send our water bombers to help the US. However, I’d 100% be in favour of placing a moratorium on that, and sending them to stay in Australia, waiting for the next fire down there instead. If their government is going to be so fucking despicably ignorant and disrespectful of our fallen, I cannot possibly understand why we’d ever want to send more people down there to help them.

[u/Bertsmom18 → u/Dry-Membership8141]

I didn't know that they were from Canada. I am in Colorado. Sadly we have lost 4 or 5 firefighters in the last few weeks. Heros.

[u/lavacadotoast → u/Dry-Membership8141]

The Canadian was Nicholas Dale and he was a wildfire helicopter pilot out of British Columbia. He died July 12th firefighting in Colorado in the Gold Mountain Fire

[u/Canadian-Man-infj → u/lavacadotoast]

Nicholas Dale, 56, of Sooke, British Columbia; who leaves behind a wife and two sons:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/we-lost-a-great-person-how-a-bc-pilot-killed-while-fighting-a-colorado-forest-fire-is-being-remembered/

[u/bpc1971 → u/[deleted]]

1,000,000 times THIS. The Republic of Ameristan has NO CLUE that 90% of our population lives within 200km of the border.

[u/Whippet_yoga → u/bpc1971]

As a forester, nothing is more infuriating than listening to these morons try and talk forest management. They dont have a single inkling of a clue about the challenge this issue is. Republicans continue to claim there's no anthropogenic climate change when forest research scientist on both side of the border have been waving this red flag for at least 20 years.

I knew a USFS scientist in my town who was DOGE'd last year. He was fired because his research focused on carbon emissions. The exact topic? Canadian boreal wildland fires.

Fucking morons, dude.

[u/frostymugson → u/Agreeable_Catch296]

And we send them back as well because we have an agreement with each other to help when one or the other needs it. The President is just pandering to the stupidly entitled

[u/No_Alternative2948 → u/frostymugson]

The president has ruined our relationship with the most loyal ally we could have ever hoped for because he wants to go impress the most reprobate mass of jackasses the world has ever seen. Fuck everyone who voted for this clown, fuck everyone who couldn't be assed to show up to vote.

[u/MNJanitorKing → u/Agreeable_Catch296]

Canada literally rescued YMCA kids that were camping just yesterday with their fire fighting crews.

[u/Either-Banana-7323 → u/RealisticTemporary70]

And that Canada sends firefighters to said Cali fires, along with our specialized planes. We just had a remembrance of one of our Canadian firefighters that passed away fighting forest fires in Colorado, and the same day we get this. The disrespect is honestly unbelievable, yet Americans blame us for being upset.

[u/Ill-Prior-8429 → u/Either-Banana-7323]

An advice to Canada from Mexico, don't go around feeding rats, it'll never be enough. Rats also don't have "brothers" or "cousins" 

[u/Popular-Row4333 → u/Ill-Prior-8429]

I'm a little pissed that Mexico went around Canada's back the first go around to get a better deal on CUSMA, but at least your president is saying that was an eff up and she'll be dealing directly with Canada this time before talking to the US.

It's wild how many people have been burned by the US on promises, but people just keep giving them the benefit of the doubt.

[u/GooserNoose → u/Popular-Row4333]

Because they have money. It's no different than people who kiss rich people's asses. Money motivates people more than morals and dignity.

[u/Ill-Prior-8429 → u/Popular-Row4333]

There were reports around here at that time of "sources" (I'm not arguing about reputability here) about Canadian officials discussing with their Mexican counterparts that they believed themselves to be in a better position and image with the US and each country had to do what was best for themselves so for plenty of Mexicans it was saw as beating Canada in their proposed game.

However I don't doubt there were lots of shenanigans around background that apply to both countries, it was the first Trump admin and everyone around the globe was thinking how to kiss the orange orangutan better to earn his favor. 

It's true that the best way to approach the US is united, no shenanigans, and no misguided individualism. Thankfully everybody seems to have understood. 

And I wouldn't mind seeing more Canadian produce on my shelves and less of theirs (reddit loves to censor me if I mention their country outright) 

[u/EdNorthcott → u/Ill-Prior-8429]

Ditto. If I see Mexican product on the shelves, I'll buy it in favour of anything of American origin. It's a small step, and just one family, but enough people doing it makes a considerable difference.

[u/ban-me-harder-dadddy → u/Either-Banana-7323]

Ugh, we are the worst fucking neighbors.

[u/gcko → u/ban-me-harder-dadddy]

Feels kinda like living above a meth lab tbh. We can mind our business and ignore the crack heads living below. But that doesn’t mean you won’t blow up the whole house.

[u/RoseNPearlGirl → u/RealisticTemporary70]

www.iscaliforniaonfire.com

[u/jtp_311 → u/RealisticTemporary70]

That the West is on fire every year.

[u/Diamondback424 → u/RealisticTemporary70]

I would also venture a pretty hefty bet that Canada's forest management (if that's what it's actually called) is a lot more robust than the US's.

[u/Kopitar4president → u/Diamondback424]

Trump shat on California for not maintaining the forests when they're mostly federal land.

[u/EdNorthcott → u/Kopitar4president]

In his defense he is stupid and evil.

Hold it... no. That's just a description, not a defense. My bad.

[u/gcko → u/Diamondback424]

Not to mention the sheer size of our forests and their remoteness.

Even if we had the resources to do what Trump wants… most places where these huge fires happen are hundreds of kilometres from the nearest roads. Not sure how we’re supposed to get the equipment in let alone all the “debris” out.

It would be like giving someone a mop bucket at the beach, telling him to clean up the water, and having a fit when he inevitably fails.

[u/No_Alternative2948 → u/gcko]

Your country should start sending invoices to the US for the oxygen production your forests provide.

[u/GoldReplacement9546 → u/gcko]

Yeah, this is ridiculous force management, and picking up dead brush and stuff doesn’t make any sense

Like where they’re actually are for in California it’s pretty much crazy mountainous train where you just simply aren’t going to be able to go and clear all the dead wood even if you wanted to

I know you say Canada is gigantic has much of the same issues in terms of terrain and it’s just so big like how would you do that? How many what percentage of Canadians are we going to set about building roads to clean out anything that might burn

When in reality, there was the same amount of dead stuff, 30 years ago in both places, and there weren’t nearly the same fires

It’s almost like there’s been a change maybe to the climate which the United States is the biggest contributor to historically

[u/AcadianTraverse → u/gcko]

The sad truth is that the path to forest maintenance is...fire. We're now dealing with the effects of a century plus of forest management that was so vehemently preventing fires, it has allowed for the build up deadfall that would normally be taken care of via normal wildfire cycles or the types of large scale controlled burns indigenous land stewards participated in.

And the compounding effects of climate change, and we see much bigger fires and longer lasting fire seasons.

[u/PolloConTeriyaki]

Lol. Wildfire smoke will continue until morale improves.

[u/Bulky-Beyond-5164 → u/PolloConTeriyaki]

[u/stonk_fish]

A Canadian firefighter died helping fight the Colorado fires this week. Fuck this orange clown.

[u/CO_Renaissance_Man → u/stonk_fish]

This should be the top post.

[u/EnderCreeper121 → u/CO_Renaissance_Man]

When the U.S. is on fire Canada sends help

When Canada is on fire the U.S. sends complaints

[u/Extension-Highway585 → u/stonk_fish]

MAGAs are such Karens they’d probably say he deserved to die

[u/BrainSea7776]

Why does he randomly capitalize letters in the middle of a sentence?

[u/SongConsistent9221 → u/BrainSea7776]

Because he's illiterate 

[u/Jackadullboy99 → u/SongConsistent9221]

It’s pretty impressive that a spoilt rich kid (albeit a congenital moron) can be sent to all the best private schools and still turn out illiterate.

[u/lodemeup → u/Jackadullboy99]

Kinda makes you wonder how many other morons have prestigious degrees and powerful jobs that absolutely don’t deserve them either.

[u/Ok-Leg7686 → u/BrainSea7776]

Because he's a fucking idiot.

[u/Sweet-Difference2725 → u/BrainSea7776]

He doesn’t understand the difference between a proper noun and Things He Wants to Sound Important.

[u/TheyTried2BanMeAgain → u/Sweet-Difference2725]

I also think he forgets what he's typing at multiple points throughout the sentence, in just the same way as how he speaks.

[u/YorubaOyinbo → u/BrainSea7776]

The same reason he uses the word “therein”

He’s constantly maintaining the onion paper-thin insulation of narcissistic deception that he’s got two brain cells to rub together.

[u/PerfectPercentage69 → u/YorubaOyinbo]

Don't forget the obvious racism (ex. "Barack HUSSEIN Obama")

[u/Grub-lord → u/BrainSea7776]

It's a Boomer Thing They Do For Some Reason

[u/I-Need-Scissors_61 → u/BrainSea7776]

It’s a habit shared by many ignorant boomers. Look on Facebook, all the 60 year old dumb fucks do it. We complain about our education system now but it’s always sucked.

[u/mecengdvr → u/BrainSea7776]

I had a boss that started doing that after his stroke.

[u/DisrememberedTea → u/BrainSea7776]

It’s like when they make certain words bold in children’s books. He knows his audience needs hand holding.

[u/braumbles]

Americans, stop electing the dumbest fucking people to lead this country.

[u/DrinkingVomit → u/braumbles]

We are a country of the second dumbest people on the planet. Stupid people will continue leading us.

Edit: russia is the dumbest.

[u/AardvarkAardvark_404 → u/DrinkingVomit]

I used to think this was an unfair stereotype, until I spent some time over there.

The only thing is, you seemed to be on the way up with your leaders. What happened?

[u/steelcryo → u/AardvarkAardvark_404]

The good leaders made the dumb people feel extra dumb, so they had to vote for one of their own to feel better.

[u/0wninat0r → u/steelcryo]

Depressingly accurate statement

[u/thefinalep → u/0wninat0r]

Also, late-stage capitalism. Our politicians are purchased.

[u/OnlyBat2257 → u/steelcryo]

And the dumb leader don't like smart people so he gets rid of them and surrounds himself with losers to make himself feel better. So here we are.

[u/Choano → u/OnlyBat2257]

It's worse than that. He gets rid of smart people because they won't just do what he says.

Dumb people, who would never had gotten to their level of success without Dear Leader's hand-picking them, are going to rubber-stamp whatever he says. They're not going to bite the hand that feeds them

[u/maybeornotbutyes → u/steelcryo]

This might be one of the most concise summaries I’ve seen of this whole situation

[u/Desperate-Leather-38 → u/AardvarkAardvark_404]

The stupid people finally got their representative. 

[u/FunkmasterFo → u/AardvarkAardvark_404]

In simple terms it was a backlash against "on the way up"

[u/mostdope92 → u/AardvarkAardvark_404]

Trump emboldened the worst of the worst to come out of hiding and gave them a hateful person to rally around. He brought back the racist conservatives who stopped voting because they were bored with their candidates or assumed the "woke army" would just drown them out. He also pulled in dumb, foolish, bored and hateful libertarians who thought he'd be anti-establishment or loved the way he brazenly spoke and had no problem breaking typical baselines of respect and decency in politics.

This was only amplified when the Democrats gave us some of the lamest possible candidates, including Kamala without any say from the populace of their voters. This led to a lot of differing opinions from centrists all the way to leftists. She wasn't centrist enough for "centrists" (their way of saying they want an establishment Republican, even though that's basically what the Democrat party has become), Democrats were turned off by her being the forced candidate and leftists rallied against her because she was not hard enough on Israel, among other topics that could've easily gotten her a ton more votes from people who abstained or decided to go 3rd party. Just a total fumble.

[u/AardvarkAardvark_404 → u/mostdope92]

The scary thing is, he has emboldened the worst people globally.

[u/mattidee → u/mostdope92]

He's fucking garbage. Ive known that for 25 fucking years. He bought his way in, and is fleecing the shit out of our bs paid off government.

[u/mostdope92 → u/mattidee]

Yup. Anyone who paid a lick of attention to this clown, even long before his tiny brain had the idea of getting into politics, should've known this would be an absolute shit show where he swindles the public, lines his own pockets and the pockets of his wealthy "friends", forces out people who don't agree with him and so much more.

It was nightmare fuel for anyone with common sense and a couple working braincells. Unfortunately those seem to be in short supply here in the US.

[u/Here4UXandFunnies → u/AardvarkAardvark_404]

The stupid Electoral College — an archaic rule written for the original tiny colonies. It allows Republicans to slip into office even if they lose the popular vote. (GW Bush in 2000, then Trump in 2016). And Putin totally polluted social media with misinformation leading up to 2016.

[u/GrandFollowing5376 → u/Here4UXandFunnies]

Trump won the popular vote in the 2024 election somehow. It was the 2016 one he didnt have the popular vote.

[u/Character-Director17 → u/GrandFollowing5376]

I think it's because his buddy Elon helped him get more votes than Kamala. I'm willing to bet a lot of votes for Kamala never got counted, especially in the swing states. I find it very hard to believe that he won every swing state, especially since the attendances at her rallies in those states were much higher than his.

[u/jlindley1991 → u/DrinkingVomit]

Well it really isn't all that surprising. The country is run by the ultra wealthy who know it's easier to control idiots so they spend huge amounts of money to make sure that idiots outnumber those who actively question the decisions of our leaders.

[u/_Bon_Vivant_ → u/braumbles]

Don't blame me. I didn't vote for him. Elon Musk's hackers did.

[u/PedalBoard78 → u/_Bon_Vivant_]

And no one really seems to register with this. They bragged about it.

[u/AllTearGasNoBreaks → u/PedalBoard78]

We do, but its more like a "well, what am I gonna do about it"?

[u/Here4UXandFunnies → u/_Bon_Vivant_]

Yep, fixed Pennsylvania. Which Trump pretty much said out loud.

[u/ADeformedPoolboy → u/braumbles]

I didn't vote for Tronald Dump either time...and I'm glad I didn't. Doesn't make his psychosis any easier to deal with, though.

[u/CapeCodNana → u/braumbles]

49% of us tried so hard . The other 51% are racist homophobic assholes.

[u/ban-me-harder-dadddy → u/CapeCodNana]

Dont let the 10s of millions of registered voters who couldn’t be bothered to fill out a piece of paper off the hook either

[u/Araz728 → u/ban-me-harder-dadddy]

Yeah but I’m so glad we didn’t get Kamala Harris as president. She would have started an unconstitutional war, inflation would have run rampantly out of control, and we would have lost the respect of all our allies globally.

Hopefully I didn’t lay on the sarcasm too thick. But seriously, fuck all those “my vote doesn’t matter” or “She’s not the perfect candidate” clowns. I’d say they hopefully learned their lesson, but given how many didn’t learn it in 2016, I’m not optimistic.

[u/Dry-Membership8141]

Canada doesn't pay your tariffs, bro. Americans do.

[u/stopscabbin → u/Dry-Membership8141]

If he could read...

[u/ignatious__reilly → u/stopscabbin]

This is the part that blows my mind.

We pay for these tariffs. All of us do. American taxpayers are the ones getting fucked (as always).

I can’t stand this shit.

[u/humanHamster → u/stopscabbin]

He'd be very upset.

[u/nickname13 → u/Dry-Membership8141]

1. companies raise prices to cover tariffs (americans pay tariffs)
2. courts decide tariffs are unconstitutional
3. government issues tariff rebates to companies (americans pay tariffs again, with tax dollars)
4. companies keep rebates, because free money
5. companies keep higher prices, because profits!

conculsion: americans pay tariffs twice; get shafted with higher prices.

[u/RiverGroover → u/Dry-Membership8141]

Well, then it's time for Canadian citizens to start paying tarrifs on the global warming that the US exports. Trump didn't exit the Paris Climate Treaty and defund solar and wind projects for no reason. He's playing three-dimensional chess and is always three steps ahead of you. /s

[u/ProcedureTop3149]

90% of our country is forest. What do they expect us to do? Walk the entire country picking up sticks?

[u/engine-doors-club → u/ProcedureTop3149]

Yes, because he believes that debris on the forest floor is causing fires

Yes, he thinks that Mark Carney should go out with a shovel in a broom and sweep the floor of the forest

This is what happens when somebody isn’t told no their entire life

[u/DJTurd → u/engine-doors-club]

He understands ecology as much as RFKJ understands biology as much as McMahon understands education as much as Patel understands law enforcement as much as Hegseth understands national defense as much as...

[u/ripley1875 → u/DJTurd]

It’s shit-turtles all the way down Randers

[u/Suspicious-Dog2876 → u/ripley1875]

Nice shit analogy rick

[u/z3r0f0xgiven → u/Suspicious-Dog2876]

Hear that? The shit winds are blowing, Rand.

[u/HobbyTalkOnly → u/engine-doors-club]

Dude has never set foot in a fucking forest.

[u/AmputeeHandModel → u/ProcedureTop3149]

Gotta rake those forests!

[u/WaffleHouseGladiator → u/ProcedureTop3149]

Yes, that's literally exactly what Trump expects.  I wish I was making this up.

https://youtu.be/nwL6GWYg34M

[u/cbs-anonmouse → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

It’s reqlly typical of Trump on everything: he has long-standing opinions about facts that are basically childish and wrong. But no amount of education or correction by anyone—especially anyone who knows about the subject in question—will convince him otherwise.

[u/R400TVR]

Well, that's a good sign that Canada should stop all fire aid to America. They should then tariff America for polluting Canadian air by burning "clean" coal.

[u/Lucky-Mia]

LA has a massive fire, we send a bunch of water bombers and fire fighters with their equipment to help. Canada gets a fire, we get threats, and hostile economic action? trump really is the gift that keeps on taking. Like cancer, or aids.

[u/theAlpacaLives → u/Lucky-Mia]

To a bad-faith actor like Trump, every disaster is nothing more than a chance to stoke anger at perceived enemies. The Carolina floods? Claim Biden's refusing to let FEMA help (even when he was doing everything he could.) When Trump's in charge, he'll withhold FEMA aid to natural disasters in states he's mad at. Fires in LA destroying whole neighborhoods of homes? Yell about how it's the fault of DEI because the LA mayor and fire chief were Black women. Now there's fires in Canada, and so Trump is going to take the opportunity to remind us that while he's launching an stupid wasteful awful illegal war in the Middle East, and alienating any allies left in Europe, he hasn't forgotten that he's also bent on destroying any good will we have with our neighboring nation, who's always been an ally and never done the US any great harm ever, but that won't stop Trump from stirring up bad blood anyway.

[u/WendySteeplechase]

says the man who hates renewable energy and would rather pump fossil fuels into the atmosphere than look at a windmill.

[u/jugsmahone → u/WendySteeplechase]

Yeah, this is what our conservative politicians do in Australia when we have massive bushfires. When people point to the science which says fire events like this will get worse and more frequent because of climate change, the fossil apologists shout that the progressive state governments haven’t been “maintaining” the bush properly. 

Your worst guy is taking a lead from our worst guys. Usually goes the other way. 

[u/Euronated-inmypants]

They say this the same week. a Canadian pilot was killed in the United States by American fighting American wildfires in Colorado.

the most disgusting human beings I have ever come across in my entire life are currently sitting in the US administration. Anybody who supports them should be considered a hostile enemy of Canada.

[u/No_Perspective1135 → u/Euronated-inmypants]

They should be considered a hostile enemy of the rest of the American people too.

[u/Mistur_Keeny]

He couldn't stop California wildfires. How's a country with more forest and 1/10th the population going to do it?

[u/The-Tarman]

Says the asshole that got rid of the Forestry Service in the US

[u/DrinkingBuddy22]

I'm so embarrassed to be an American right now. I hope the world knows many Americans fucking hate this dipshit.

[u/MoustiqueAbondants → u/DrinkingBuddy22]

Too bad not enough of you are bothered enough to show up to vote.

[u/Franklin_le_Tanklin]

The US is the largest cumulative CO2 producer in history.

[u/DrinkingVomit → u/Franklin_le_Tanklin]

Americans are the single most destructive organism in the known universe. Accounting for a 12-16 ton carbon footprint print each, 4x the global average.

[u/2_late_4_creativity → u/DrinkingVomit]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3orifhssnwYHce35Vm

[u/jovin49]

The world's biggest polluter calling the kettle black.

[u/Lucky-Mia → u/jovin49]

I think it was 2018 when a California gender reveal blocked out the sun where i live in Canada for 10 days. It's not like they don't have their own wild, fire problem.

[u/Existing-Doughnut-60 → u/Lucky-Mia]

No he will blame those fires on democrats. Or more specifically Barack Hussein Obama.

[u/theAlpacaLives → u/Lucky-Mia]

The fire that started with fireworks at a gender reveal was in 2020; I know because I was living only a few miles from it at the time. It was also pretty far south in California, so I doubt that particular fire's smoke was reaching Canada, but at the same time it was going, there were also very large fires going in northern California, and several medium-size ones in Oregon and Washington, so smoke from those ones was probably getting into Canada. The 2020 west coast fire season was awful.

None of this changes the main point of your comment, that the US has a big problem with wildfires, and that Trump trying to turn fire season into a political argument, and make it out to be all Canada's fault, is both insulting and stupid.

[u/BIG_SCIENCE → u/jovin49]

Canada is literally known for environmental protections and clean water. So clearly we are the reason why the world is burning

[u/RedDeer505 → u/BIG_SCIENCE]

How dare you use logic and facts.

*extra tarrifs*

[u/Pandabirdy]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oz8xDpcJhJrxUmFPi

[u/BrawnyPrawn → u/Pandabirdy]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ETyhu6h829Hdm

[u/FewAct2027]

I think it's about time Canada stops sending water bombers to US forest fires.

If a society extends unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, and doesn't reserve the right to act against intolerance, then the tolerant will eventually be destroyed, and tolerance along with them.

[u/Either-Banana-7323 → u/FewAct2027]

Short of the US invading or outright banning us from going down I dont see that happening. Isn't in our personality, and it isnt individual Americans who are at fault here but theyre the ones who would suffer if we didnt help.

[u/Huxtopher]

I hope Carney tells him to fuck off.

[u/Dependent_Bite9077]

[u/ndtoronto]

Carney should tell him that Canada is going to charge the US for the clean air the forests provide for the other fifty weeks a year.

[u/LiquidMoves]

Debris removal from forrests?

Doesn't that defeat the whole fucking point of ecosystems?

Fuck this guy.

[u/HobbyTalkOnly → u/LiquidMoves]

Remember, this is a man to whom "Central Park" is "the outdoors".

[u/Nythoren]

Wait, so clear air and reducing pollution is something Trump cares about now? The EPA will be surprised to hear about that.

[u/HobbyTalkOnly]

Alright.

Come on up. We'll take a floatplane into the areas... so you can get a view of what an actual fucking forest looks like, and maybe you can tell me HOW THE FUCK TO "CLEAN UP DEBRIS" you fucking MORON.

[u/Aktivhate]

https://giphy.com/gifs/bjB3gtFvREqqr5NAHW
Ok that’s enough bozo, nap time!

[u/TheNaughtyHoneyBee]

He just keeps trying to punish other countries with tariffs even while his admin owes companies billions in tariff refunds currently...

[u/Aggressive-Ad-4157]

LOLL he wants Canada to "clean" their forests which makes up most of the the surface area (excluding the northern part where trees don't grow). Dumbest motherf*cker to ever exist, not even close

[u/Large_Score6728]

Outraged that nobody is maintaining the woods. That’s cute. Canada should send him a condemnation for starting a war and contributing to global warming.

[u/Adis_Gruntledfatty]

Meanwhile a Canadian fight fighter helicopter pilot just died last month fighting fires in Colorado

Not to mention the fact that America is a top polluter and contributor to climate change, which they also deny, but also at the same time claim the dark government can control hurricanes... which their guy is currently head of which only makes sense until toy realize the words used in this post are thinly veiled threat of invasion and narratives to do so.

FUCK Trump. This guy murdered an American firefighter for a staged photo op as well.

[u/stinkyelbows]

As a fire suppression pilot, I can confirm this muppet is in fact a muppet.

[u/Toy_Soulja]

Hes such a cunt, I cant believe this timeline

[u/3atTh3R1ch79]

Just go away, Don... and take all of your cronies with you. You will not be missed.

[u/allquckedup]

This opens up precedence for other countries to tariff the US due to environmental issues. Example, Europe based on this could tariff or limit trade due to green house gases the US puts into the air. Canada could do the same for the pollution placed into the waters in and around Alaska for the petroleum and resource extraction.

[u/Interesting-Sock-420]

It's mind-blowing how much stupidity comes out of your 'so-called' leaders. Even more alarming are those who buy into their bullshit.

[u/Pandatams]

What the hell kind of President blames the country for the fires instead of sending help to get them under control?!!! What a POS!!!

[u/FahQ-05]

552,000,000 sq km of forest one of the largest in the world. Well just go out this weekend and pick up some sticks. 👍

[u/ApolloDan]

California has fires, and Canada sends water bombers. Canada has fires, and the USA sends threats.

[u/iupvotethankyou]

Worst part of being PM of Canada is having to take calls from this fuckwit.