[HappyJazzz]

^^I would like to know what you mean by true monarch. Charles inherited the throne from his mother legitimately as she did from her father. So what is the issue. You just don’t like him?
To suggest Donald J Trump is a business man beggars belief. He is a mob boss, a cheat, a fraudster , a rapist , an extortionist, a tax cheat. Need I go on he tried to embezzle money from a children’s charity. A business man adds value to his assets he bankrupted a casino ffs. So rest assured if he thinks something is a good idea best steer clear unless you want to invest a couple of billion dollars in his crypto currency you never know tarrifs could go away.

Nothing against Charles, he's a nice enough fellow, just a poor choice of words.

I should have said Liz was the last UK monarch of global relevance. She got the job at a very unique time. Her reign starts as broadcast television really get going, making her easily one of the most iconic monarchs in history, but she also gets the job just as the empire is unraveling with the end of the colonial era.

Tough gig, but I think she pulled it off exceptionally well, and really helped cushion the post colonial crash for the British people, psychologically at least.

Going forward, thanks to generational and demographic changes in all the anglosphere countries, I don't expect the UK monarchy to be any more notable than the remaining European royals we rarely hear of.

 

[HappyJazzz]

4 year term and lots of time to see the pendulum swing both ways. BRICS expansion will draw blood from the USA and weaken its influence and I think that is a good thing for Canada. Even Macron in France apparently wants to join BRICS to lessen the power and influence of the USA. BRICS is what this whole grab Canada thing is about. I am waiting for Mexico to push back the USA by threatening membership in BRICS - they might if they can mange the trade shit storm the USA would release.

Eh, I'm not saying BRICS is irrelevant, just most of it's members.

The real value that group brings to the global table right now is their international finance transaction system to circumvent SWIFT.

Of the individual members, only China has any significant industrial capacity, and therefore relevance on the global stage.

And yes, countering the enormous imbalance in manufacturing ability that's grown since the 90s is likely the major drive behind Trumps imperialism. Getting more resources for Team America and the people to make use of them.

 

[HappyJazzz]

I’m gonna fully disagree with much of this, first of all if anyone toppled Trudeau I’d say Freeland started it. That letter and the resulting palace uprising was the cause, Trump was just the joker on the side.

As for us becoming part of the US, nope and nope. There are so many reasons it won’t happen, and just as many more that it shouldn’t. Why won’t it? Unless he’s gonna take us by force and he’d need an act of congress for that, then Canadians are overwhelmingly opposed and republicans if they stop and think about it don’t want another 45 million democrats leaning voters(because in Canada reality is a large portion would lean that way). So there’s no true mechanism for it.

Why shouldn’t it? We have different values, very different values. Gun ownership, health care, environment, human rights, equality, schooling, etc are very different. I want no part of it. Do we have issues? Yup but I’d take ours over there’s.

What I do agree with is he’s not a typical president, he sees everything through the lense of a business transaction and that we need to start to understand that and act accordingly.

Frankly I'm not overly interested in joining the US as it is, but the prospect of further decades of Laurentian mismanagement isn't appealing either.

However, a new continental entity forming, along the lines of the EU with free trade (something the provinces don't currently have) schengen style open borders and a common currency is immensely appealing.

Outside of trade, foreign affairs and military matters, let the member provinces and states run their own affairs as they see fit.

No the legacy institutions of this country won't like that, but they've had their chance in the drivers seat and we are where we are...

Time to try something new!

 

[Oilguy]

Frankly I'm not overly interested in joining the US as it is, but the prospect of further decades of Laurentian mismanagement isn't appealing either.

However, a new continental entity forming, along the lines of the EU with free trade (something the provinces don't currently have) schengen style open borders and a common currency is immensely appealing.

Outside of trade, foreign affairs and military matters, let the member provinces and states run their own affairs as they see fit.

No the legacy institutions of this country won't like that, but they've had their chance in the drivers seat and we are where we are...

Time to try something new!

We are quite simply nowhere near as busted as people think we are. Heck Americano sentiment of the direction their country is heading generally isn’t great. An Eu form of union isn’t gonna work when one of the parties is ten times the size of the other, there’s just too much imbalance and even if you brought in other countries in the americas the development gap is just too wide to make it work. In addition, the us is never, ever going to give control up to some central body so you’d have to basically become their territory, No thanks. We are still one of the G7, we still have people from all over the world wanting to immigrate here. We are relatively safe and clean, our problems are quite frankly fixable if we start thinking in a more collective fashion on a national scale. Sign me up to fight for what we have had and can become.

 

[HappyJazzz]

our problems are quite frankly fixable if we start thinking in a more collective fashion on a national scale.

Are we going to have to wait for another 150 years to see that happen?

The cringe tier retorts our political class have been responding to Trumps trolling with tells me they don't have what it takes, just too creatively bankrupt.

Remember, Trump didn't threaten tarrifs no matter what. It was the promised response if Canada didn't get the drug production and terrorist immigration problems sorted out.

Apparently Canadian politicians are either incapable of understanding that, or they think the task is impossible and have to resort to punitive economic countermeasures instead.

If Trudeau had gone down to Florida with a plan to curb immigration from areas with known antisemitism problems and a promise to "not" unleash JTF2 on the fent labs, the conversation probably would have gone much differently.

Instead he went there begging "please no tarrifs, muh economy" and got an appropriate response.

 

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Trump's concepts are "coloring book" simple and people who fall for them are in awe of coloring books.

 

[Whattagame]

Are we going to have to wait for another 150 years to see that happen?

The cringe tier retorts our political class have been responding to Trumps trolling with tells me they don't have what it takes, just too creatively bankrupt.

Remember, Trump didn't threaten tarrifs no matter what. It was the promised response if Canada didn't get the drug production and terrorist immigration problems sorted out.

Apparently Canadian politicians are either incapable of understanding that, or they think the task is impossible and have to resort to punitive economic countermeasures instead.

If Trudeau had gone down to Florida with a plan to curb immigration from areas with known antisemitism problems and a promise to "not" unleash JTF2 on the fent labs, the conversation probably would have gone much differently.

Instead he went there begging "please no tarrifs, muh economy" and got an appropriate response.

He may as well have demanded that Canada fix the issue of unicorns blocking the McDonalds drive thru. The issues he's raised are wildly overblown, and even if they weren't, it's up to him to secure his own borders.

We can't dance like monkeys for the amusement of a madman because when the music stops, he still won't be satisfied.

 

[HappyJazzz]

Trump's concepts are "coloring book" simple and people who fall for them are in awe of coloring books.

Something about glass houses...

He may as well have demanded that Canada fix the issue of unicorns blocking the McDonalds drive thru. The issues he's raised are wildly overblown, and even if they weren't, it's up to him to secure his own borders.

We can't dance like monkeys for the amusement of a madman because when the music stops, he still won't be satisfied.

Lolz.. What fent crisis, amiriteguise??

If it takes threats from an angry neighbour to force a landlord to address problems with the property, so be it.
As long as it gets fixed...

 

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It's one thing if it was an "angry neighbor"; unfortunately this neighbor is just plain dumb!

 

[Oilguy]

Something about glass houses...

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Lolz.. What fent crisis, amiriteguise??

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If it takes threats from an angry neighbour to force a landlord to address problems with the property, so be it.
As long as it gets fixed...

I’m going to say the fentanyl issue is a big one and we need to clean it up. But I’m also very disinclined to be lectured by the us when they have exported their drugs, handguns and assault rifles to us for a very long time.

 

[Glenco]

I fail to see what this has to do with the monarchy unless Charles has his own meth lab.

 

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^I think it started with a Trumper trumpeting nonsense counter to the Monarchy discussion... a Fox news aficionado no doubt.

 

[Whattagame]

Something about glass houses...

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Lolz.. What fent crisis, amiriteguise??

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If it takes threats from an angry neighbour to force a landlord to address problems with the property, so be it.
As long as it gets fixed...

Srsly??? The guy whose budget relies on this being a problem said it's a problem?

Data says otherwise:

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protections, less than 20 kilograms of fentanyl was seized along the border with Canada last year, compared to more than 9,000 kilograms along the border with Mexico.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/trump-fentanyl-border-us-canada-1.7413745

Oh, and so does the...(adjusts glasses)...DEA? Huh.

Illicit fentanyl, primarily manufactured in foreign clandestine labs and smuggled into the United States through Mexico
https://www.dea.gov/resources/facts-about-fentanyl

No mention of Canada, though.

 

[SarcasticMarmot]

I fail to see what this has to do with the monarchy unless Charles has his own meth lab.

I dunno, there is a certain poetic rhythm to using a thread on Canada and the Monarchy for someone to express their Quisling fantasy.

 

[HappyJazzz]

Srsly??? The guy whose budget relies on this being a problem said it's a problem?

Data says otherwise:

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protections, less than 20 kilograms of fentanyl was seized along the border with Canada last year, compared to more than 9,000 kilograms along the border with Mexico.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/trump-fentanyl-border-us-canada-1.7413745

Oh, and so does the...(adjusts glasses)...DEA? Huh.

Illicit fentanyl, primarily manufactured in foreign clandestine labs and smuggled into the United States through Mexico
https://www.dea.gov/resources/facts-about-fentanyl

No mention of Canada, though.

Maybe Canadians are just better smugglers?

Or maybe it's that the promotion to producer is a fairly recent one for Canada, and the border just hasn't been monitored as closely as the Mexican one.

In any case, if you seriously believe Canada doesn't have a fent problem, go take your kids for a walk through Chinatown tonight..

Speaking of China, this is a very eye opening read for anyone who is genuinely interested in learning more about the root of these problems.