dwazouEvery Canadian Premier, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, signed a joint statement against President Trump. Except Alberta's Danielle Smith. She refused to sign.
Eliott Dumoulin, a journalist who covers Canada for the French newspaper Le Monde, tries to explain to readers back home what’s going on.
FreeBooteR69Alberta’s Trump. Glad in BC we avoided our version, by the skin of our teeth.
No thanks to Danielle Smith who ran election interference in BC.
Oh, was it close there too? It was painful when Smith won by 1300 votes.
I wish Dani was at least owned by the Canadian oil companies but we can’t even have that…
At this rate, Danielle LeSmith is a few months away from being indicated on embezzlement charges 🤞
SpaceCowboyYou might be on to something. Might be angling for the Andrew Tate treatment from the Trump regime. Probably will renounce her Canadian citizenship and get a job on Fox News.
ford is a traitor, he was humping trumps leg and was ready to sell out Canada until it looked bad for him. He is still fucking up healthcare, and selling off greenspaces, and filling his pockets, as is tradition with conservatives. Fucking traitors the lot of them.
Any sources because he’s been pretty loudly against trump since the 51st state comments. Not holding back waiting for polls
Ford was caught on hot mic saying he was happy Trump won until tariff threats started.
“Election day, was I happy this guy won? One hundred per cent I was,” Ford said. “But then the guy pulled out the knife and f–king yanked it into us.”
cbc.ca/…/ford-trump-win-comments-tariffs-1.744951…
In defence of Ford, he’s done a pretty good job vocally standing up to Trump, but I don’t know anyone in their right mind that would be happy Trump won.
Ford seen on video saying he was '100% happy' Trump won U.S. election — until tariff threat | CBC News
PC Leader Doug Ford was captured on video after a news conference Monday saying he was happy that President Donald Trump had won the most recent U.S. election — that is until Trump responded with tariff threats that could cause massive harm to Ontario’s economy.
Yes, but the original post stated, Ford waited for things to look bad for him before he switched sides. Ford was pretty quick to say fuck them.
Yes he’s conservative but he’s Canadian first
Yeah I think as soon as he heard about tariffs again he was immediately aggressive about it.
He’s an asshole for sure, but he’s our asshole.
I just don’t know how he forgot about this all when on US election night.
Not ‘our’ asshole, just a populist. They see the way the wind in blowing and make a bunch of noise about it and then do what they were always going to do, which is sell off more of the province to Mattamy.
Yeah I’m as unhappy as I am he’s in charge … he’s at least got Canada as his priority unlike Danielle Smith.
He withdrew the electricity surcharges after winning the election and meeting with trump…
Weak
Yeah, he came out and was a good guy by surprise there.
I really hope he’s what the future of the Conservative party looks like federally. Not PP or Danielle Smith.
Laserdani smith is a traitorous cunt!
Seditious bitch.
A shit-stain of a human who’s in it for herself.
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@Punchshark @dwazou no argument there
So many places to go after Danielle smith. Do we have to make her sex one of them? She is a horrible leader, a liar, traitorous, vacuous, purveyor of bullshit culture war, climate change denier, maga sycophant, incompetent shitforbrains, and worst of humanity
You can say a lot without mentioning her sex
He never mentioned her sex. Cunts are gender neutral.
Maybe is Australia. Next guys calls her a bitch. Just saying hate her cause she’s horrible. No need for misogyny
Don’t be a cunt
See? it’s entirely different when you call a guy a cunt vs when you call a woman a cunt. Because it’s not gender neutral
Oderusit’s entirely different when you call a guy a cunt vs when you call a woman a cunt
No it’s not. Maybe to you but that’s more a ‘you’.
Gotta say I’m kinda shocked at the amount of people adamant that they’re right to call women cunts. Do you also fight for your right to drop nbombs or other racial slurs, or is it just women were allowed to slander? If cunt and bitch are ok, can we also call them whores and sluts? Is there a line we don’t cross?
Please explain as it seems I’m too stupid to understand the nuance here
HasturIs it derogatory or misandry to call a male a prick, knob, or dick? its the same thing as calling a female a cunt.
People just like to act like special snowflakes. Fuck em all
White lives matter?
It’s just not as deep as you’re making it out to be. He called her a cunt because she is siding with Trump. Her gender has nothing to do with it.
The focus here is Danielle Smith has refused to condemn Trumps actions, grow up.
We’re just being egalitarian. Cunt is not gender specific as anyone can be a cunt, even animals. Nbombs and racial slurs aren’t remotely the same so not sure why you’d bring that up. Maybe it is because you are too stupid to understand. I don’t know but the fact that you’re so sensitive about calling a woman a cunt is quite interesting. Bitch, Dick are both the same. I’ll use them how I want to.
From American heritage dictionary
noun The vulva. Used as a disparaging term for a woman. Used as a disparaging term for a person one dislikes or finds extremely disagreeable.
Killer57I call my male friends cunt’s from time to time, can’t say I’ve ever used it towards a female. if you really think it’s an insult you should try living in Australia.
Used as a disparaging term for a person one dislikes or finds extremely disagreeable
For a person. As in, anyone you want. Not just against women.
He didn’t even know if you were a woman or a man. You just made his point.
I’m trying to figure out if I’m having conversations with 14 yr old edgelords. Is his point that derogatory comments to women are cool, or that misogynistic terms are cool regardless who their aimed at? Are racially insensitive terms ok too?
Everywhere else in the world with the exception of prudish north america, “Cunt” is just a synonym for asshole; regardless of gender.
That may not be where the word started, but that’s where it currently is in modern usage.
now you want to start calling people “edgelords” lol. maybe it’s time to look at your own embarrassing, disgraceful behaviour and consider the possibility that you’re a gigantic flapping twat
Interesting. Do you have any insults that don’t include female anatomy?
x00zGod you’re an awful troll.
Really? You think twat cunt and bitch aren’t misogynistic? Do you use these terms to describe your mother/wife/daughter?
I don’t call my mother/wife/daughter a useless oversensitive dumb ass either, and it has literally nothing to do with avoiding misogyny. I don’t call them that because I lobe them and also that they aren’t that, very simple. I will call you a useless oversensitive dumb ass though, because that’s how you’re behaving. People who aren’t cunts rarely get called cunts, so a solid tip would be to stop being a cunt.
What does your mother/wife/daughter think when you tell them that you call women you disagree with cunts? Does that make them feel good?
Look, I don’t mean to antagonize you but you’re looking at it in a very American-centric (and quasi-chauvinistic) way.
In other countries the c-word doesn’t have the same connotation as in the US. You are assuming American culture, and its concepts, are universal. They’re not.
There’s nothing inherently wrong in the c-word and the n-word, but it’s the context where those words got to be used that made them so repugnant. Since the n-word was mostly a US thing, its taboo meaning passed over to all variants of English. The c-word though, was already used in other variants and didn’t have the same bad connotation it does in the US. So it kept being used in a different way.
Trying to force the American meaning on other English speakers comes at best as ignorant and, at worst, chauvinistic. I don’t think you have bad intentions since you clearly don’t understand how a word can have very different meanings in different cultures. But now you know.
I mean, it’s a Canadian sub talking about Canadian politicians. It may be different if we were talking about Aussie politics. I’ve been to Australia, lived in nz for a year, I’ve used the term with buddies pretty often.
It is different when you’re speaking about a woman in power (awful woman in power) and take all her horrid aspects and boil them down to a demeaning misogynist term. There are a million different insults that can be thrust upon her. Why does it have to be one that means vagina. Whether it’s been appropriated or not by other cultures, here in Canada it is misogynistic and is interpreted so by nearly every woman here
“Whether it’s been appropriated or not by other cultures”
Uh? Englishmen appropriated English culture now?
Aussie vs can or us. Yes different cultures
How often do you call your mother a cunt?
Lol, I’m not even dignifying that with an answer. I’ve made my point.
Right. Simple question. Total cop out. Why doesn’t word cunt in the context of your mother make you uncomfortable? I don’t think you actually made a point
Because I wouldn’t insult my mother (or father) with ANY swear word.
I assure you that I’m Canadian and I say Donald Trump is a miserable cunt all the time. Because he is.
Some people are cunts. Some cunts are men and some cunts are women. Both Pierre Pollievre and Danielle Smith are cunts. They’re miserable people that never say anything positive and seem to derive joy from fucking things up for everyone. They’re miserable cunts.
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I could. But she doesn’t deserve that kind of respect
I agree she doesn’t deserve respect. I guess my point is that it’s not just her that you’re hurting with misogynistic slurs, it’s also my daughter who gets hurt
I totally hear you. It is not my intention to hurt anyone else besides danis shitty feelings. I just dont have a problem getting in the mud with them to play their own game
Look, I don’t mean to antagonize you but you’re looking at it in a very American-centric (and quasi-chauvinistic) way.
In other countries the c-word doesn’t have the same connotation as in the US. You are assuming American culture, and its concepts, are universal. They’re not.
There’s nothing inherently wrong in the c-word and the n-word, but it’s the context where those words got to be used that made them so repugnant. Since the n-word was mostly a US thing, its taboo meaning passed over to all variants of English. The c-word though, was already used in other variants and didn’t have the same bad connotation it does in the US. So it kept being used in a different way.
Trying to force the American meaning on other English speakers comes at best as ignorant and, at worst, chauvinistic. I don’t think you have bad intentions since you clearly don’t understand how a word can have very different meanings in different cultures. But now you know.
The word, as an insult, may be used predominantly to refer to either gender in some parts of the world, but in other parts it’s usually gender-specific. Both points of view – misogynistic and not – could be argued to be valid because we live in different cultures. That said, we’re a global audience here and so using this word across cultures becomes problematic.
Here in the USA, it’s still a mostly gendered word based in misogyny. People in the US claiming otherwise probably just don’t want to stop using the word as an insult and either don’t believe or care that it perpetuates misogyny in the US when used against women.
This is hypocrisy unless you’re also this offended when someone calls another person a dick
Is it the same? Is calling a white person a cracker the same as calling a black person an nbomb?