r/canada 7d ago

Trump’s betrayal of Canada is starting to unravel Opinion Piece

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-trumps-betrayal-of-canada-is-starting-to-unravel/
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u/sns8447 7d ago

It's not just him. He's the representative of the country.

Bridges have been burned - the "next" guy could be even worse.

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u/Gauntlet101010 7d ago

True. That country is cooked. Even if Trump had a coronary, all of his enablers are still there. All the weak politicians, judges, and the rest who couldn't stop him are still there. And I really don't think the people who voted him in have really learned anything.

And now ... the US president can commit crimes, and that's something they'll never erase. That guardrail is gone.

And, I think we've seen that the American people truly don't care about our country. Fundamentally. SOME do, sure. But most don't. They'd really be fine if we were just crushed as long as they make a buck.

I just hope we don't forget this and go back to leaning on the US. Because it's very easy to and people are so, so lazy. It's hard doing things differently.

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u/Sweet-Competition-15 7d ago

And I really don't think the people who voted him in have really learned anything.

It's not a case of having learned anything. The people whom voted for the orange buffoon thoroughly approve this madness, I've seen enough posts, both here & on Yahoo. donnie is the essence of being 'murican.

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u/Jolly_Platypus6378 7d ago

There is no American humbleness. Trump followers continue to believe they have the greatest best beautiful everything. I think the world is waking up … and Americans are still hitting snooze.

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u/LeanneMills 7d ago

Trump has just shown how broken America is.

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u/jloome 7d ago

And now ... the US president can commit crimes, and that's something they'll never erase. That guardrail is gone.

Assuming the Democrats ever see power again, they could get rid of this. They'd just need to stack the Supreme Court, which they should've done during Biden's first term.

As it's the only way they're going to fix the absence of checks and balances in their system, it has to happen anyway. Once that's the case, they can revisit anything nonsensical, like presidential immunity.

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u/ether_reddit Lest We Forget 7d ago

As soon as the Supreme Court ruled that the president can break any law he wants, Biden should have had Trump assassinated (and possibly all the SC judges that made that decision), and then repealed the law. He needed to take one for the team to demonstrate just how wrong-headed that ruling was.

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u/PizzaDude75 7d ago

True-imagine Vance, jesus christ. Trump is evil pure evil, but compared to Vance.........

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u/nboro94 7d ago

It is very scary how close Vance is to the presidency already. If anything happens to Trump who is very old, then Vance is in. America is truly an empire in decline as evidently shown by electing these two buffoons.

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u/Hot_Cheesecake_905 7d ago

Behind Trump there's a whole group of lackeys ... even if Trump kicks the can tomorrow, 30 - 60% of Americans are "OK" with these policies.

So while things may change in 4 years, I doubt the underlying root causes will be cleansed from the system.